sherlock
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They really do think the public are stupid don’t they?
Bit of both. But I suspect the policy of gaslighting is in full steam now running up to the election. Sunak has a policy of shouting out meaningless or fallacious and misleading statistics in PMQs and hoping people believe him.It's hard to know whether they are deliberately misleading people or are really so stupid that they do not understand how inflation works? I am not sure which is worse but both are terrible.
Deliberately misleading. Politicians aren’t stupid, they often have warped ideals but they aren’t stupid. They are manipulative.It's hard to know whether they are deliberately misleading people or are really so stupid that they do not understand how inflation works? I am not sure which is worse but both are terrible.
Energy is getting cheaperThey know the majority of the population don’t understand inflation and think when the rate drops things are getting cheaper.
It was always expected to.Energy is getting cheaper
It's nothing like as cheap as it should be given wholesale costs.Energy is getting cheaper
What versus 2 years ago?Energy is getting cheaper
I’m an idiot, and so is my wife.Reckon I could be a tory strategist. Make everything as **** as possible. Then anything that is an improvement on rock bottom you can herald as an amazing success.
Genius
They really do think people are idiots don't they? I suppose tory voters do encourage them to think that mind.
Then you have to add on the extra chunk the retailers can squeeze out of you. One item i buy at my local used to cost a quid a year ago and now costs £1.35 so that's a 35% increase.Something cost £100 last year.
10% inflation it now costs £110.
3.5% inflation it will cost £113.80
But that's "a win" yeah?
Gas, electric, supermarkets, petrol/diesel...... continue to take the p*ss but the government are complicit making this happen. Expect quite a few people are making eye watering sums, and will continue to do so until.......
This is what really ***** me off about the way we report on things like inflation and wage rises etc. We should be using indexes and then things are easy to understand. Using %ages just gives them the opportunity to forget everything that has happened before the most recent published data. There is no context to "inflation has fallen to 3.2%". It's meaningless. Obviously they don't want things to be easy to understand because it suits them and their short term obfuscations.Reckon I could be a tory strategist. Make everything as **** as possible. Then anything that is an improvement on rock bottom you can herald as an amazing success.
Genius
They really do think people are idiots don't they? I suppose tory voters do encourage them to think that mind.
AbsolutelyThen you have to add on the extra chunk the retailers can get out of you. One item i buy at my local used to cost a quid a year ago and now costs £1.35 so that's a 35% increase.
Doesn't really work in a service based economy (which we are, and can only be), they just end up chasing/ following each other, which actually ends up worse for everyone. For services sector a massive chunk of their costs are wages.