Thanks Tories and Labour: Cost of Living Soars by 7.7%
Family grocery bills have soared by £1,400 during the last year, according to price comparison site mySupermarket.co.uk.
A family that spent £100 a week on their food shop a year ago is now having to hand over £127 as prices increase on milk, butter, pasta, meat and bread.
Even official measures of inflation show the Government’s target of 2% being left far behind. Inflation has jumped to 4.4% as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). The Retail Prices Index shows inflation at 5% while the Real Cost of Living Index - calculated by moneysupermarket.com comes in at 7.7%.
Food inflation has spiralled to a CPI record 13.7% on the year, up from 10.6% in June. As in the previous month, this was principally due to a rise in meat costs, particularly bacon, ham and poultry.
Meat rose to 16.3% year on year, up from 11.2% in June. A loaf of sliced, white bread from Tesco has climbed from 48p to 72p; a pack of Asda butter has gone from 56p to 94p and a kilo of bananas from Sainsbury’s has increased from 59p to 77p.
Food prices are rising at a quicker rate in Britain than in France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. These increases hit the over-75s hardest as they allocate 16% of their household budget to food compared with less than 9% for the under-30 households, according to Alliance Trust.
The data from the Office for National Statistics also showed that the Retail Prices Index - which includes the cost of housing, such as mortgage payments and council tax - jumped to 5% in July from 4.6% in June.
Transport costs have also soared over the last year. In the latest move in the supermarket petrol price war, Morrisons announced a 2p cut. This brings the cost at their 277 forecourts down to an average of 121.2p for diesel and 109.9p for unleaded. A poll from price comparison site moneysupermarket.com finds nearly a quarter of people will have to make cutbacks in other areas to pay for rises in their gas and electricity bills.
British Gas customers now face a £416 increase from this time last year and will be paying £1,328 on average a year for their fuel bills, more than £110 a month.
The over-75s are again hit hardest by higher electricity and gas prices, which have both increased by around 13% over the last year. This group spends almost 7% of their budget on electricity and gas bills against just 3% for the under-30 households.
* Despite these increasingly serious economic indicators, the Labour Government - fully supported by the Tories in this regard - still spends untold billions on the illegal Iraq war, asylum seekers, immigration, foreign aid etc. etc.
* The British National Party is the only party which has a strict “Britain First” policy, where all domestic needs are seen to first and foremost, and nothing foreign gets priority over indigenous British people.
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The pound’s fall against the dollar and the euro stokes up inflation of course because imports become dearer.
Zanu have got us into the worst possible fix I’m afraid - it is now admitted that growth is zero - or below zero - and inflation is rising. This is called “stagflation”. Zanu are hamstrung here because the traditional levers of fiscal and monetary policy can’t really be employed.
Vince Cable is one of the very, very few mainstream politicians I think who are worthy of respect. Over the NR fiasco he was almost alone in asking searching questions, the other half-wits didn’t even know where to start it appeared. He says that the recession could last 10 years. I think this view is correct, it is merely an unprejudiced assessment of the reality of the UK economy - whose base liblabcon have destroyed.
A sharp fall in living standards is inevitable, of course the political implications of this will be profound.
As the article says, the only real answer to this is to bring the troops home, pull up the drawbridge and can foreign aid. Sending home asylum seekers has to be a priority - we cannot afford to keep them here and maintain a decent standard of living for our own people.
If the situation was reversed, and lots of our citizens were living in an African nation where the economy was in the toilet, do our political leaders really think that foreign citizens would be treated well? Would the governments of those countries step up and protect the foreign workers?
Perhaps our gutless political leaders should read these articles and take positive action. At the moment, the only party with a policy that makes economic sense in a stagflated economy is the British National Party.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/19/africa/saf.php
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gF7hGfLZI3×6aosptWRh8rEs-2Hw
The cost of living has risen by 7.7% and in my humble opinion the cost of inflation is somewhere between 5.5% and 7.5% ; if the figure was calculated under real family expenditure items it would give a true picture . Thanks a bunch “prudence ” and all you other Nulabour artists that make the decisions that are now costing the population of this country very dear .
Bet our glorious leaders don’t suffer the negative effects of inflation. Theirs is only positive i.e. whacking great increases in salary, expenses, perks and (an unkind person would say), bribes.
Take a bow Brown, Harman, Jowell, Hewitt et al.
Would our Generals run the army without reserves, Prudence, the Iron chancellor did.
Where is our Gold Gordon, this stuff we have here is just the Receipt ( I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of …., where is the REAL Wealth of the Country.
You know, our Industries, our Oil, Car manufacturing, ship building, our Fishing waters and farming that used to help feed us.
All sold off to your Buddies, the Global Elite at Knock down prices, just like our Gold, we are now dependant on them.
We are left with what exactly in this country, credit, and a debt based economy the stock exchange which is merely perceived wealth, our homes, wealth based on perception again.
And a paper currency that costs pennies to print but which you tell us is worth £5, £10, £20.
See how by not looking after the National Interest, by not looking after Great Britain, the Great British People and our Industries we become victim to the folly of other countries.
You are a charlatan Brown, a salesman stuffing yours and your employers ( the Bilderbergers ) pockets with the Wealth of this Great country.
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Hmmm … charlatan is a bit mild, RC. -Ed
Noel -”They think that by reducing us to a state of desperate poverty they can roll out the Big Lie that all our difficulties could be resolved if only the EUSSR could be allowed to ignore the Irish decision to not ratify the Lisbon Treaty.”
Actually Noel their EU options are rather limited. One obvious move for them, as the pound sinks, would be to join the Euro. But even when the “economy” was growing at 3% they were still borrowing massively. They are in breach of the Maastricht rules over this. But as the economy slumps they will need to borrow even more - which I am far from convinced they are going to be able to do. In any event the Europeans have given Zanu until Jan 2009 to bring public borrowing down to the Maastricht limits.
This they have no chance of doing - this means they can’t join the Euro. What we will find over the next few years, as tax increases and savage spending cuts take effect, is the collapse of liblabcon. This economic crisis really is different this time.
I think it is fair to say that in general the population dislikes them, verging on the beginings of detestation. This will turn into hatred and loathing. Any gov’t anywhere depends on the power of patronage, and in the kind of semi-modern so-called democracy we have here the ability to buy/con the necessary minority of votes. If the purse is empty, they’ll simply fall apart. They already are really - look at Beown’s deflated composure - he knows the game’s up, he knew it the moment the financial system seized up.
This is a situation which would have been perfectly familiar to Monsieur Necker, the last finance minister of the royal gov’t prior to the French Revolution.
We will be very well placed, because everything we said was going to happen will have come to pass; and the controls they have over us at the moment - the MSM prostitutes - will have broken down; the party line being totally discredited.
The 200-year old boom is over. Driven by cheap energy, the economy has grown by leaps and bounds. We shall never see its likes again, for no matter that once the effects of the credit squeeze have been digested, the base costs of fuel and energy will nonetheless continue to outstrip growth. These costs will be augmented by a world population outgrowing the world’s carrying capacity, and by another few years yet of demand for energy, fuel and primary resources in China and India exceeding world-supply. At the same time, more and more energy pundits are being brought to confess that we are now consuming more oil than we are producing, and that no matter what the optimists have to say about the miracles of new extraction techniques, this situation is not about to be corrected.
Mervyn King of the Bank of England is dwelling in Fairyland when he says optimistically that the recession (and the fall in property prices) will last only two years (just about the time that King anticipates a recovery, Britain will begin to suffer rolling power shortages as our power stations begin to close down); Vince Cable (@ Stringbag, 18th, 2:07pm), who more realistically, speaks of a 10-year long recession ahead of us, is also over-optimistic in his assessment.
Racial conflict in this overcrowded tinder-keg of a Britain, as resources become more and more scarce, is inevitable; if the BNP is properly positioned, it can take advantage of this. Unfortunately, many tens of thousands of innocent white Britons will have been driven to the wall long before that time is reached.
This government is turning our country into an ethnic tip. if it is allowed to carry on we will be glad to get into the euro. Thats what it is all about.
Phoney economics was in considerable measure responsible for the influx, Askari. An allegedly buoyant economy was floated into existence on a sea of credit.
Real economics will mean a reversal of the flow; that’s the logic of the situation.
I heard King say that the downward, to zero, growth predictions did not mean a revision upwards of gov’t borrowing. Given that gv’t borrowing is predicated on growth projections that is just nonsense. I don’t think he lives in Faireyland, I’d say he is a liar.
Well we can only blame the voters who have voted for the Liblabcon Artists.
We cannot expect any help from the Disintegrating Labour Government and the Conservatives could prove to be even worse.
The BNP really does deserve our vote.
Oh come on you lot, downturn? Inflation? This Labour Government have been telling us for years that we’ve never had it so good! After all, according to this Government, we have: -
Record levels of employment which equals higher tax revenue - surely good news for funding better services & tax cuts;
Lowest unemployment levels since the early 1970’s, which mean less spent on benefits - more good news;
Migrant working contributing billions to the British economy, through their tax, NI & council taxes contributions - yet more good news!
According to these ‘facts’ the British taxpayer should be burdened with the lowest levels of taxation for any European country, have first-class public services available, and we should all be as happy as Larry! So, the British economy should well place, due to ‘prudent’ Government management to see out this slight downturn!
So, why is it that the British taxpayer is burdened with huge levels of taxation? Why is it that we have declining levels of public services which has led to the ‘post code’ in the NHS, our bins emptied once a fortnight, while our council taxes rise above inflation year on year? Why is it the Government is 50 billion in the red and plans to borrow more? Why is then that crime & antisocial behaviour are out of control? Why is it then that pensioners and those hard-working people on low incomes now struggle to pay their energy bills? Why is then, that this Government is the most unpopular Government we have ever seen? Oh, that last one is very easy to answer….
I wouldn’t blame the current Chancellor for this mess although he was stupid enough to take the job as Brown’s intended fall-guy. Brown and the rest of the Nulab clique now realise that they cannot be re-elected so they are conducting the economic equivalent of a scorched earth policy to make the job of the incoming Conservative government as difficult as possible. The fact that it would involve serious hardship for millions of British people doesn’t faze them at all. Then again, Dave’s Cons (check it in French!) are no different from NuLab, disillusion will set in quickly and the British public will see them for the same - because they are the same. They are the LibLabCon.
Stringbag (6.16 p.m.) and Askari (6.18 p.m.): Brilliant posts, both. I have in the past, perhaps not quite so eloquently, expressed the same view — that a total collapse of the economy is what will precipitate our party’s accession to power. Let us hope that all three of us are correct in this prognosis. However, I do fear that, as Askari has pointed out, before the accession of a BNP government and national salvation, the sufferings of a great many white Britons will have been prolonged and of great severity. I have to say I did particularly like stringbag’s Necker/Brown analogy. Fortunately for the peoples of Britain, Nick Griffin is definitely not cast on the same mould as Maximilien Robespierre.
According to David Noakes, Maggie is the only one who regretted signing the treaty. Some Memories of Lady T.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQu5nRDblY&feature=related
Here she is saying no, no, no to further integration, So that’s why the traitors in the Conservative Central Office had her stabbed in the Back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f8nYMCO2I&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFXOw_nAPh0&feature=related
I do wish the press would stop saying that a family has to “find” an extra £1400 a year or whatever.
This family simply doesn’t have any excess cash to “find”.
What this means is that our standard of living is gradually deteriorating, year on year even though we earn more and spend less on luxuries.
So where is this economic “miracle” of our “genius” ex-chancellor?
Mind you, they seem to have done alright for themselves.
Noel -”Fortunately for the peoples of Britain, Nick Griffin is definitely not cast on the same mould as Maximilien Robespierre”
Indeed. I tend to like economic parallels drawn with pre-revolutionary France because the bankruptcy of the French state then fits pretty well with the howling mess that Zanu, and before them the Tory spivs, have made of our economy and finances. Robespierre was a patriot, but he was also a fanatic. The course of the 17th century English Revolution is a better guide for us, there was no terror, but major changes were effected that served us well down the centuries, notably the propspect of an absolutist tyranny was closed down. If I might be permitted to, I would thoroughly recommend a study of this period. To know what has gone before gives valuable insight into likely future developments; it gives a sort of ballast.
I was very interested in a couple of royale craig’s recent links. The gist of these was that the popular interest in Ron Paul’s US campaign, as evidenced by internet traffic and youtubes, was much greater than that generated by the mainstream candidates, Clinton and Obama. Obviously this is not at all reflected by the MSM, the reverse is the case - and the “old gang” politicians, as we say, are merely creations, puppets, of the prevailing liberal consenus.
Gray’s Elergy speaks movingly of “Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood…….” In other words some unknown who stood against some petty tyranny, lost, and lies buried and long forgotten. At any time there will be numbers of these “village Hampdens”(back to the 17th century again) but destined for obscurity because the times weren’t right, there wasn’t the conjunction of historical forces, for them to make a real impact, to really shake things up. Patriots need the tide of events to be turning in their favour as well as their instinctive, dogged beliefs. The tide is very much running in our favour now.
Every time I read posts from some of the folks who clearly spend more time than I do on this bb I feel part of a family. Rarely in social circles (apart from one or two kindred spirits) do I have the opprtunity to read the views of like minded people to such an extent that, even in these times, I can feel positive. To all you folk out there keep these informative posts coming - obviously on top of some of the best news articles to be found anywhere. Wake up British media!
Regarding the recession that most free thinking individuals realise we are now in, I feel this will last the 10 years (or more) that has been suggested. Of course, the Tories will bring the country to its knees as they tighten fiscal policy further but will try to use the same argument that they used after the ‘79 election and blame Labour for the mess (off which there is no doubt!). However, they could make the burden less by kicking out all illegals and asylum seekers, by capping energy charges, by applying windfall taxes to energy & oil co’s, by withdrawing from the EU thus saving £8 Billion PA, the list goes on. BUT they won’t. They will still try to eek out every penny they can, for themselves and their corporate bosses, from a broken nation and put up interest rates and make the people of our nation pay and to remain in misery - because they can.
If only the people of this nation would wake up before the next election and vote BNP instead. This is, I feel, the only way that bloodshed on our streets can be avoided. Of course, when this happens people will come to their senses. I only hope it wont be too late to save the nation.
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Family ties, Mike. Always good to hear from you - Ed
This country and its Great People could easily ride out the Worlds Problems, as could most European countries, the US and Australia, we are naturally industious and inventive, sadly we have allowed ourselved to be entrapped by Banking Cartels and the Corporate dictatorship, all legitimised by the charade we think of as our Government.
The reality is that we are being farmed.