The UK economy is in the toilet then Johnson and Sunak take a giant shit on it and we are told by their supporters we can’t flush.
Inflation was exceeding the bankers target for years before putin even invaded…
Politicians and their propaganda are trying to blame Putin. But the arrow of time doesn’t lie.
The war might have pushed it *over* 7%, but it’s this government’s actions (and inaction) that have pushed it up that high in the first place.
They cannot blame it all on the war. Although I’m sure they will try.
How can inflation only be 7% when the cost of everything in the shop has gone up between 25%-50%?
Surely that 7% number is being kept artificially low somehow?
The war has little to nothing to do with inflation in the UK. Sky running interference for the govt. once again.
Putin is the new Buckaroo.
Juat hang everything on the fucker!
I’m going to shag my sister-in-law and tell the wife Putin made me do it.
It’s not the war that’s causing this. It was printing loads of money.
Apparently this is one of the reasons we can’t expect Boris to resign over party gate. He’s got to deal with the cost of living crisis.
Has the government done anything except half heartedly said ‘oh no, that terrible’ while increasing tax?
Let’s say this yet *again*:
INFLATION IN THE UK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UKRAINE – COST OF LIVING HAS BEEN INCREASING FOR MONTHS BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2021 – RUSSIA INVADED A FEW WEEKS AGO
I can’t believe how easily the tories have had it these last several years. Always something to pin their failings on. Plague, canal blockage, driver shortage, impending global war.
7% inflation.
Cost of living accelerating at a rate even higher than that.
Got my yearly pay rise yesterday…… 3%. And with a very clear ‘be grateful you got anything at all’ guilt trip to go with it.
A 3% rise in these times just doesn’t cut it. My reward for a ‘good’ year at work is to be worse off than I was this time last year.
This helps Johnson because he desperately needs people poor enough to need to go and work the fields. By pushing people into poverty he may get his new labor force right here at home.
Now that the Tories are struggling with global economic problems too, I guess we can all finally agree that the last Labour government didn’t destroy the economy after all.
Did Russia’s war also plant wine and cheese at the very professional meetings?
Surely we are not buying the idea that this rise in inflation is due to Putin’s war?
This is entirely the war and covid, nothing to do with Brexit at all, no sir, our new national religion cannot be questioned at any cost.
Yeah can stop using Putin as an excuse. People were warning this was coming 12-18 months ago.
Significant borrowing has continued in 2021, with £136bn borrowed between April and November, with the vaccine and test-and-trace programmes adding to costs, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). That was the second highest since records began in 1993.
Let’s see bread has gone up by about 25%.
Milk (not from a supermarket) has gone up 12%
Rent 5%
Fuel by fuck knows how much as it keeps changing but roughly 10 quid a tank so 22.5% very roughly.
Council tax 4.9%
Gas and electricity 54%
Butter/Marge about 15%
Phone bill and internet 9.8% each
Pasta 18%
Rice 12%
Energy drinks 25%
Crisps 20%
Might be 7% officially but by fuck does it feel a lot more.
Was up way before the “Russia war” lets be honest. How gullible do they think we are? Blame everything and everybody bar ourselves and the USA where most of the issues stem from
Ahhhh don’t talk about the money supply issues and the bailouts, its all muh Russia’s fault
Always nice to have boogie man to blame years and years of shit decisions on
The title isn’t technically wrong, but we all know that Putin wasn’t the driving force pushing CPI growth from a healthy 2% to an egregious 7%. His war was only a primary contributing factor in the last two months (obviously) and inflation has been growing high above normalcy for a year.
Oh so it’s because of war, here I was thinking it had something to do with the £trillion they printed over covid, or the effects of Brexit, or 10+ years of austerity finally hitting home. Turns out it was Putin this whole time! Don’t I feel stupid.
They talk about inflation like its a natural phenomenon.
We are getting gouged. And the tories have convinced their supporters the government isn’t in charge of the economy – only social issues.
While we struggle and starve corporations will post record profits. Because profit is all that matters anymore.
We are really gonna blame the Russian war for the inflation. Wow
Oh we are blaming this inflation on the Russian invasion alone are we?
It has nothing to do with a corrupt incompetent government at all.
Loool ah yes it’s Putins fault. Best blame him for as much as we can xD not that this wouldn’t have any detriment to our politicians lives, just our.
Actual jokes
This has little to do with the war and lots to do with inflation caused by the government’s mishandling of the last two and a bit years.
This sub has once again proved that its users are headline trend addiction riddled simpletons.
Two years ago when people were saying hey, it might not be the best idea to completely shut down the economy and print astronomical amounts of money to finance people to sit on their arses doing nothing for months on end, all because of a illness with a 99.9% survival rate the morons in here absolutely went mental calling for even harder, more draconian measures.
Back then people said we would feel the effects of this for decades and no one would listen. Well have at it now .
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The UK economy is in the toilet then Johnson and Sunak take a giant shit on it and we are told by their supporters we can’t flush.
Inflation was exceeding the bankers target for years before putin even invaded…
Politicians and their propaganda are trying to blame Putin. But the arrow of time doesn’t lie.
The war might have pushed it *over* 7%, but it’s this government’s actions (and inaction) that have pushed it up that high in the first place.
They cannot blame it all on the war. Although I’m sure they will try.
How can inflation only be 7% when the cost of everything in the shop has gone up between 25%-50%?
Surely that 7% number is being kept artificially low somehow?
The war has little to nothing to do with inflation in the UK. Sky running interference for the govt. once again.
Putin is the new Buckaroo.
Juat hang everything on the fucker!
I’m going to shag my sister-in-law and tell the wife Putin made me do it.
It’s not the war that’s causing this. It was printing loads of money.
Apparently this is one of the reasons we can’t expect Boris to resign over party gate. He’s got to deal with the cost of living crisis.
Has the government done anything except half heartedly said ‘oh no, that terrible’ while increasing tax?
Let’s say this yet *again*:
INFLATION IN THE UK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UKRAINE – COST OF LIVING HAS BEEN INCREASING FOR MONTHS BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2021 – RUSSIA INVADED A FEW WEEKS AGO
I can’t believe how easily the tories have had it these last several years. Always something to pin their failings on. Plague, canal blockage, driver shortage, impending global war.
7% inflation.
Cost of living accelerating at a rate even higher than that.
Got my yearly pay rise yesterday…… 3%. And with a very clear ‘be grateful you got anything at all’ guilt trip to go with it.
A 3% rise in these times just doesn’t cut it. My reward for a ‘good’ year at work is to be worse off than I was this time last year.
This helps Johnson because he desperately needs people poor enough to need to go and work the fields. By pushing people into poverty he may get his new labor force right here at home.
Now that the Tories are struggling with global economic problems too, I guess we can all finally agree that the last Labour government didn’t destroy the economy after all.
Did Russia’s war also plant wine and cheese at the very professional meetings?
Surely we are not buying the idea that this rise in inflation is due to Putin’s war?
This is entirely the war and covid, nothing to do with Brexit at all, no sir, our new national religion cannot be questioned at any cost.
Yeah can stop using Putin as an excuse. People were warning this was coming 12-18 months ago.
Significant borrowing has continued in 2021, with £136bn borrowed between April and November, with the vaccine and test-and-trace programmes adding to costs, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). That was the second highest since records began in 1993.
Let’s see bread has gone up by about 25%.
Milk (not from a supermarket) has gone up 12%
Rent 5%
Fuel by fuck knows how much as it keeps changing but roughly 10 quid a tank so 22.5% very roughly.
Council tax 4.9%
Gas and electricity 54%
Butter/Marge about 15%
Phone bill and internet 9.8% each
Pasta 18%
Rice 12%
Energy drinks 25%
Crisps 20%
Might be 7% officially but by fuck does it feel a lot more.
Was up way before the “Russia war” lets be honest. How gullible do they think we are? Blame everything and everybody bar ourselves and the USA where most of the issues stem from
Ahhhh don’t talk about the money supply issues and the bailouts, its all muh Russia’s fault
Always nice to have boogie man to blame years and years of shit decisions on
The title isn’t technically wrong, but we all know that Putin wasn’t the driving force pushing CPI growth from a healthy 2% to an egregious 7%. His war was only a primary contributing factor in the last two months (obviously) and inflation has been growing high above normalcy for a year.
Oh so it’s because of war, here I was thinking it had something to do with the £trillion they printed over covid, or the effects of Brexit, or 10+ years of austerity finally hitting home. Turns out it was Putin this whole time! Don’t I feel stupid.
They talk about inflation like its a natural phenomenon.
We are getting gouged. And the tories have convinced their supporters the government isn’t in charge of the economy – only social issues.
While we struggle and starve corporations will post record profits. Because profit is all that matters anymore.
We are really gonna blame the Russian war for the inflation. Wow
Oh we are blaming this inflation on the Russian invasion alone are we?
It has nothing to do with a corrupt incompetent government at all.
Loool ah yes it’s Putins fault. Best blame him for as much as we can xD not that this wouldn’t have any detriment to our politicians lives, just our.
Actual jokes
This has little to do with the war and lots to do with inflation caused by the government’s mishandling of the last two and a bit years.
This sub has once again proved that its users are headline trend addiction riddled simpletons.
Two years ago when people were saying hey, it might not be the best idea to completely shut down the economy and print astronomical amounts of money to finance people to sit on their arses doing nothing for months on end, all because of a illness with a 99.9% survival rate the morons in here absolutely went mental calling for even harder, more draconian measures.
Back then people said we would feel the effects of this for decades and no one would listen. Well have at it now .
Germany posted a 40 year high of 7.6%: https://www.ft.com/content/2f2fb7cc-3039-416b-ad22-f42315d0b1d0
France hit 4.5% (highest in over 35 years): https://tradingeconomics.com/france/inflation-cpi#:~:text=Hits%201985%2DHigh-,Annual%20inflation%20rate%20in%20France%20accelerated%20to%204.5%25%20in%20March,4.3%25%2C%20preliminary%20estimates%20showed.
The US hit 7.9% In march: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
This appears to be a western problem, not solely a uk one