What happened on 23rd May 2023 - with your comments in the Web
Tuesday clearly was not a day of good news. The mass media hurried to upset us with news that UK food price inflation at third-highest level since 2008 . That is why Jeremy Hunt to meet food manufacturers over prices as Kantar says rate is still ‘incredibly high’. At the same time the BBC issued an article explaining why food bills aren't shrinking - five things to know . It runs that food prices are 19% higher than a year ago. A grocery shop that used to cost £50 is now nearer £60. And it blames in this situation the war in Ukraine with Brexit adding to the red tape of importing food . Yet, the readers have another opinion. " Because conservative governments put corporate profit before people. Simple as that." "I can answer that ; because it will make supermakets and suppliers record profit and they want a piece of the profit cake too." Others get to the root: "its the farmers fuel and heating, the fuel and heating at the storage/abbatoir, the electric a...