[Toy Soldier]

If they don’t want to create wealth to tackle to cost of living crisis because of inflation, then it’s really quite simple; they need to do more to redistribute the wealth that already exists. Take ALL of the tax off fuel at the pumps and find it elsewhere. Place an absolute hard cap on energy increases; subsidise the companies of needs be. Those two things alone would be a start. Tories won’t do any of that though.

[arista]

"Tories won’t do any of that, though."


Rishi Sunak is having another mini budget
in October,
or he could be forced to do it long before that

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by arista

"Tories won’t do any of that, though."


Rishi Sunak is having another mini budget
in October,
or he could be forced to do it long before that

If it contains any form of meaningful wealth redistribution I’ll eat my own hat and yours, arista.

[bitontheslide]

listening to that guy in the treasury lecture people on not asking for big pay rises really pissed me off, it brought out my inner socialist

[arista]

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

OK in all seriousness - who are these families with "monthly" shopping bills of under £400 a month? ... under £100 a week?

I do a "big" weekly shop that's around £100 every weekend and then I'm back in there 4 or 5 times during the week spending another £20 - £40 each time! We don't eat extravagantly or excessively so ... how are people actually spending less than £100 a week for a whole family? Where are they getting this data?

Where do you shop?

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Where do you shop?

Not Aldi or Lidl.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Not Aldi or Lidl.

Waitrose?

Why not try "Aldi or Lidl" and see if you can it for £100 a week? That's probably how "they" do it tbh

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Waitrose?

Why not try "Aldi or Lidl" and see if you can it for £100 a week? That's probably how "they" do it tbh

Because the “food” is by and large disgusting and I don’t think “people should reduce their outgoings by living off sawdust and offal scraps” is a particularly forward-thinking suggestion.

I shop at most of the supermarkets on and off. Mostly Tesco or Sainsburies these days to be honest out of sheer laziness; I love M&S food but it means going to two supermarkets because it’s crap for non-food household items. Find that I just don’t have the time these days.

I’m not struggling to afford food but I don’t come from an “I’m alright Jack” mindset where I’m happy to say “oh well my food budget is affordable for me so people on low incomes can just tighten their belts or eat poor quality food, what’s the drama”. We keep consistently getting pay bumps but lately it feels like those are only keeping up with increases? £12k increase in annual household income this year (pre tax) or thereabouts but it feels like once you factor in fuel increases, utility bills and food constantly going up we’re actually only a few hundred per month better off than the same time last year. That’s not a flex; I’m saying I have no idea wtf people are doing in their income is currently fairly static??

Not to mention that the price of basics is increasing everywhere… including the gross budget places.

I go to Lidl for precisely two things;

- Peppa Pig ice creams

- Yoghurts. For some reason their yoghurts are amazing. It makes no logical sense that they would be but they are . The “luxury” brand ones and the “layered bio” style ones. ****ing delicious.

I’ll also buy their dirt cheap laundry detergent if I’m in because, as a pro-tip, if you use a good quality fabric softener to add some flavour to the wash it literally does not matter what detergent you use, and fabric saoftener is far cheaper than detergent.

Money saving expert right here.

[arista]

Johnson was in the hospital today for a minor operation
on his sinus


https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-surgery-no-10

[bitontheslide]

That is good news, maybe in future his behaviour will pass the sniff test

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

The Party Chairman
Oliver Dowden Resigns

[Oliver_W]

Blimey, losing Dowden is almost as much of a blow for Johnson as losing those two seats...

I bet the 1922 johnnies are desperately searching the bylaws for a way to get rid of him...

[bitontheslide]

it's pretty obvious that Boris just doesn't give a crap. The tories will change their rules on the frequency of no confidence votes because the must get rid of him now

[arista]

[arista]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...elections.html

[Oliver_W]

I'd be interested to know if Labour lost or gained in the seat won by the Dems...

[arista]

[arista]

Sky Text :
[Sajid Javid saying Labour and the Lib Dems
should "come clean" over whether they have an electoral pact.]

[arista]

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