Posted on 05/08/2022 8:50:21 AM PDT by Mariner
It is 7.30pm on a Wednesday evening and Donna, a 47-year-old care assistant, is sitting in her Wakefield home, wrapped in a shawl.
Like many across the country, she has become acutely conscious of the rising cost of living. Increasing food, energy and diesel prices are already having a significant impact on her day-to-day life.
Energy tariffs that offer cheaper “off peak” rates allow Donna and many others to shift their use of household appliances to the evening, or night time. Other adjustments, though, are more dramatic, like eating significantly less hot food.
“I have noticed it recently,” she said. “My kids have left home and it’s just me and my partner. I’m washing after six now. We don’t really put the heating on. We wrap. If we put the heating on to take the cold out of the air, it’s after six and it’s only for an hour.”
She added: “We’re eating a lot of cold food, so as not to have to cook.”
Donna’s husband has also begun driving their car to work to save on the additional diesel consumed when she used to drop him off each day and then return home.
She is addressing a focus group of nine working-class voters in Wakefield, all of whom describe their own cut-backs, albeit to varying degrees, to reduce costs.
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Energy and food inflation hits everyone. But it's the poor and middle class that truly suffer.
Untold millions will starve in the 3rd world.
But every neocon will tell you it's worth it to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
They just won't identify themselves on this thread.
Hot food is baaaaaad, it’s killing the earf, and making the glaciers melt. Eat your food raw, and don’t complain about it. That’s bad for the environment.
The globalist juggernaut to march western financial institution control eastward and eventually bring Russia under it’s heal is so worth it I am willing to starve to death. That money that I was saving for a new car and is now going to food and fuel - it’s a small sacrifice for the global good and ecology justice.
Middle England, or “Middle-Ages England”?
Cult speak. Following approved script.
It was 44 degrees in West Chester PA this morning…
So the leftist Labour Party will make it all better? Whatever happened to UKIP?
So they can’t even afford to run microwave ovens?? That seems hard to believe.
The Tories should be fired, but unfortunately the alternative is even worse.
Time to lay in a supply of, oh, a couple tons of soilent green.
I scanned the title and thought it read: ‘We can’t hear our food anymore’.
Need caffeine.
They need to accept their socialist overlords and take what they are given. It’s what they have always wanted. No sympathy from me.
The polar bears and penguins there must be dying in droves.
I’m all for sacrifice for the greater good of Ukraine, but COLD ENGLISH FOOD?!!!
That’s a bridge too far, matey.
In most cases blaming “the party in power” for inflation, show economic ignprance as inflation almost always has causes that began before a current national administration and sometimes (not always) have no cause in actions of a current administration (unlike Biden’s).
While Trump’s tax and energy policies did not stimulate inflation, the “pandemic” “stimulus” federal handouts under Trump were excessive and increased money supply when demand was lowering and supply chain issues were building.
Yet, the Federal reserve made matters worse when the pandemic slowdown was officially over by August 2020 but it kept its stimulating low interest rates and asset purchases into it’s own balance sheet. And Biden did everthing to make matters worse with additional “pandemic” “stimulus” and depresssing American fossil fuel production.
I imagine the situation in the U.K. is also one where all the casuses of inflation did not come from the current national administration.
In a perfect world, penguins would live in the arctic where the polar bears could eat them.
Millions…
I think most people on this forum thought those would trigger inflation, and they did.
Always enough for unlimited immigrants to be brought in and put on welfare.
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