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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by jupp0r on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:28PM (#35291454)
Tragically (and perhaps comically) it's the blue collar class that is the cause of all of this by voting for Brexit.
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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by benjaminwootton on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:30PM (#35291491)
Definitely Brexit and not the half a £trillion we printed to fund Covid handouts.
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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by pjc50 on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:41PM (#35291717)
It would have been better to do that through tax rather than printing, but that was never going to happen.

Obliterating the entire hospitality and entertainment industry without compensation would have been .. unpopular.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by jupp0r on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:38PM (#35291666)
Food prices were rising a lot in 2021 already. Here's a study that links Brexit consequences to food price increases. https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2022/l-Decem...
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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by arrow7000 on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:32PM (#35291526)
Although greatly spurred on by many in the upper classes
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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by dukeyukey on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:13PM (#35292229)
German food inflation is running at 22%. Whatever the UK's issue is, it's Europe-wide.
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