Cost of Living

[kalifire]

This is a thread to discuss Cost of Living.

Please keep respectful and on-topic. Difference of opinion is welcome; personal attacks are not.

New posters are very welcome to join in!

[clarkete]

Well this includes some pretty stark and depressing figures https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/un-extreme-poverty-uk-policies-olivier-de-schutter-just-fair/

[Skip997]

And yet the turkeys will continue to vote for Christmas

 

[kaosmark2]

1 hour ago, clarkete said:

Well this includes some pretty stark and depressing figures https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/un-extreme-poverty-uk-policies-olivier-de-schutter-just-fair/

Poverty here absolutely was a political choice. The "swingeing cuts" of coalition were ideological and even several economic bodies said so.

As much as we look back and think things weren't as bad then, the current NHS crisis was as much started by the destruction of the care sector in the early 2010s, as it was by the pandemic. COVID was just the tipping point.

Ofc, the blatant corruption of Johnson, Truss, Sunak, etc. plays into it, but Cameron/Gideon/Clegg should own the shame of this as well.

[kaosmark2]

We're all in this together:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/british-gas-profits-energy-bills-centrica

[kaosmark2]

Tories watering down the bill banning no-fault evictions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68421116

After opposition from Tory MPs that are landlords and the National Residential Landlords Associtation

[fraybentos1]

34 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

Tories watering down the bill banning no-fault evictions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68421116

After opposition from Tory MPs that are landlords and the National Residential Landlords Associtation

A good few of them and some Labour ones too. Shouldn't be allowed imo

[kaosmark2]

4 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

A good few of them and some Labour ones too. Shouldn't be allowed imo

Particularly as lots of them do the flipping home thing around expensing a London one while renting out another.

[kaosmark2]

Won't somebody think of the shareholders?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68682198

[Ommadawn]

Not just an issue in the UK either -

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/07/17/cost-of-living-crisis-took-its-toll-on-eu-households-in-2022-new-statistics-show

[lost]

This is crazy:

 

[fred quimby]

On 3/30/2024 at 10:45 AM, lost said:

This is crazy:

 

Bloody hell, madness