Chappers
Friday 2nd December 2022 10:25pm
Surrey
35,730 posts
Quote: lofthouse @ 1st December 2022, 7:00 PM
Brexit has added almost £6 billion to UK food bills over the past two years, new research has found.
Household food bills are up six per cent since the UK's formal departure from the European Union, a study from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) revealed.
Low-income households have been hardest hit by the uptick in costs, with Brexit-induced price rises adding 1.1 per cent to their total cost of living - more than the 0.7 per cent increase felt by the wealthiest decile of households.
In all, UK consumers paid £5.8 billion in additional food costs over the two years.
Commenting on the findings, Jacob Rees-Mogg - who previously said we will get cheaper food and clothing outside of the EU - argued that Brits will avoid a 2 per cent extra cost to fish fingers thanks to Brexit, as well as bagging savings on some cheeses....
Like he even knows what a f**king fish finger is!
Yawn!
Quote: Lazzard @ 2nd December 2022, 10:49 AM
Of course Brexit isn't the main problem.
Brexit is like a stone in your shoe when you're running away from a tiger.
It's not the main problem - but it's not exactly helping.
It also means the tiger will undoubtedly catch you first.
And - if it wasn't for the tiger chasing you - you'd probably have come to the conclusion by now that putting a stone in your shoe was a pretty piss-poor idea in the first place.
The thing is if everyone had accepted that Brexit was a democratic decision and everyone had worked together instead of trying to put obstacles in the way we probably wouldn't be in so much shit now.