Didn't Farage make a great deal about this sort of thing happening to him?
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Boris Johnson's already in there counting all his cash and eating your ice cream!
Hoorah for the monarch! I take it that he finished by saying that the royals are using their assets of £2 billion+ to build accommodation for their homeless subjects? That's right, isn't it?
Genius idea!
Nearly 20% cows in UK now kept in battery cages and never go outside.
I agree. It always seemed a ridiculous abusive phrase anyway much like "Wake up and smell the coffee!" People repeat these things thinking they're clever.
"huge amount"! Ha. (I'm actually vegan - though the rest of the family eat fish and the occasional Frankenchicken!). Food and groceries are just expensive!
Pre-pandemic we would spend £100 a week on food shopping for a family of two adults and two children. We now spend about £200-£250 for the same amount of food (probably less). We don't buy expensive brands or any alcohol at all. At the same time our monthly energy bill was about £90 a month and is now £190 a month. Our salaries have increased by about 3%. For us, just a regular family in the UK, life has significantly worsened and looks like it will get even worse. Sorry if that shocks you.
By focusing on mortgages (which is how you started) you miss the extent of the problem. That's why you feel that things for YOU aren't that bad. It's not true that 55% goes on rent/mortgage. The numbers are roughly 20% for households with mortgages, 35% for rent (slightly lower for social housing). Low-earners, as I said earlier, get hit the hardest and spend much more of their income on mortgages/rent. The problem is the perfect storm of food + energy + rent\motgage + taxation + low-levels of welfare support in UK.
It's not "pocket change". For most households in UK, food, energy and rent/mortgage take up about 70% of income. That doesn't include anything else or other bills (or alcohol or going out or clothing etc). For a lower-earning familiy it takes up considerably more than that.
Truss' budget accelerated for a short-term period what was happening to the economy (and mortgages). Economists believe that the rises would have happened anyway. If mortgages are going DOWN why are rents going UP?
Food has increased by nearly 40% in 5 years and, according to projections, will rise to 50% by the end of 2026. Energy has increased by 75+% in the same period. Rents have increased approximately 40% as well.
Wage increases are not keeping up with these costs. Combined with increases in tax plus benefits freezes and cuts most people are putting up with less. Parents skipping meals so their children can eat and the exponential rise in food bank use are only two examples.
Unfortunately, the reaction to this is largely taking the form of "raising the flags" and blaming immigrants.
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Just listened to a radio programme which claimed that the UK is the 6th largest spender on defence in the world already.
You can imagine a future where the UK's completely gone to shit internally: the infrastructure's broken, roads so potholed that you can't drive, mass homelessness, no medical treatment available, no fresh water, food shortages, power cuts, everything closed down or in the process of shutting but surrounded by an arsenal of cutting edge nukes, drones, battleships, submarines costing £billions.
Defending what?