Our gas and electricity bills tripled this year. Our mortgage repayments are going to increase in September. Home insurance went up. Train fares to work have increased, as has the price of food and petrol. Last time I went out for a couple of post-work drinks in London, about three weeks ago, it was £7.50 a pint in a pub that was charging £6.00 just a couple of weeks prior. The Southbank charged us £19 for two small plastic cups of red wine when we went there a few Fridays back. The prices are going up absolutely everywhere, on everything. I went to the local shop for a pint of milk last night and it was 30p more expensive than it was about ten days ago.
I just don't understand what the end game is with this. People just won't be able to pay for things. The more frivolous things will go and then the bills will be in arrears and then the mortgages or rent or loan repayments...
What is the point of this, of making a population so financially squeezed to the point where society will just disintegrate? On the back of 12 years of austerity.
It's disgusting.
