Prices gone mad

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

Petrol now a fiver a gallon
Gas and electricity up 15% - 20%
Mortgage repayments rocketing
Council tax up again
Another budget about to be announced
Now bread prices going through the roof - up 40% this year!!

All down to the price of wheat apparently so thats going to impact on Bacon, Pork, Chicken and eggs.

It's all getting a bit silly.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:01 am

And the lowest paid workers having to fight for a half decent pay rise....and losing!!!! banghead

Like I've been saying for a few years now....this Country needs a Revolution!!!! :evil:

They had Riots about the Poll Tax....but not even a murmur about how we get tret now....and to me it's 10 times worse!!!! banghead

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:05 am

I didn't realise you lived in our Street Mr.Chip....cos we've got a couple of them Characters in our street!!!! confised

When I moved in with our lass a couple of years ago she lost....£387 per month and she lost all her help re.Council tax etc!!!! :shock:

And that is no exageration!!!! confised

She was a single parent working Part-Time but as soon as she done the right thing....ie.got a partner, married, living together etc....she gets penalised!!!! :evil:

Now if I just moved in and we never told anyone we could have still had all that!!!! confised

And they wonder why people are happy to stay on benefits!!!! confised

Oh yeah....another thing....if I dropped one of my shifts at work....(worked less hours)....we would be entitled to Working Tax Credit of about Treble or possibly more than I get actually working the shift!!!! confised

More Money for working less!!!! :roll:

The Country is fecking mental!!!! confised

ronaldo · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:53 pm **Posts:** 861

Socialist government my Arsenal , this lot are worse than the tories. At least you knew who the enemy was under Thatcher.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:18 pm

business rates for our pub are abhorrent. They are taking the piss. No wonder many small businesses end up closing for good. The council and the Valuation Office have got it spectacularly wrong in our case, but we have been refused transitional relief until the next Valuation List is drawn up. They are a pack of w-an-kers.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:20 pm

With all these price increases its enough to make me turn to the booze but thats going to go up in the budget as well.

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:12 pm

Where I live:

Petrol: 1.69 a gallon, and it's biofuel, made from sugarcane, so it's non toxic. Scruffy old polluting China eh??

Gas : 15 quid a quarter.
Electricity: Just had a bugger of bill for January as it was a record cold winter: 38 quid

Rent : 350 quid a quarter

Management (similar to Council Tax, bins, gardening, cleaning, security etc) : 7 quid a month.

Bread : 11p a half loaf.

Weekly shopping : 9 quid.

It's not a revolution you need it's an aeroplane ticket out of the shithole. :wink:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:07 pm

how much are the flights?

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:25 pm

Well personally speaking this country seems ellish cheap to me after France. *shrug*

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:08 pm

Pooliekev wrote:

Where I live:

Petrol: 1.69 a gallon, and it's biofuel, made from sugarcane, so it's non toxic. Scruffy old polluting China eh??

Gas : 15 quid a quarter.
Electricity: Just had a bugger of bill for January as it was a record cold winter: 38 quid

Rent : 350 quid a quarter

Management (similar to Council Tax, bins, gardening, cleaning, security etc) : 7 quid a month.

Bread : 11p a half loaf.

Weekly shopping : 9 quid.

It's not a revolution you need it's an aeroplane ticket out of the shithole. :wink:

How much is a Side of Dog????

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Just out of interest, what is the average wage? My guess is that it is pro rata the prices given, but I'd like to know.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:31 pm

Hawklord wrote:

Just out of interest, what is the average wage? My guess is that it is pro rata the prices given, but I'd like to know.

Just the question I was about to ask.

It's alright Kev, with all his huge savings from his many shady dealings prior to his sudden and unexpected departure from the UK, but what about the average Chinaman in the street?

:wink:

It'll be OK to say that, he'll be tucked up in bed now.

:laugh:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37180

Nobodys Hero wrote:

I agree with Muttley.

But a huge amount of this is down to our "socialist" government.

Tax plays a huge amount in the prices quoted by Mr I.

Correction, the only time I was on the dole was 20 + years ago, I discovered a single lass with the same number of kids as us was better off benefits wise than us being a married couple. THIS SOUNDED MAD... so I 'enquired' and found out that this was so, apparently, the powers that be at the time thoughta family of two adults and two kids needed less money than one parent and two kids... summat to do with coping alone :roll:

......and that was under Maggie.

I wonder how many claimants would still be claiming mobility if they had to drive those blue plastic three wheel tupperware cars they used to be given

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:52 pm

those three-wheeler things were death traps!!!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37180

...for other road users and pedestrians. :laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:10 pm

So what is the Average Monthly wage in China????

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:18 pm

Varies madly from region to region but if you add it all up and divide by 1.3 billion......('cos remember that all the kids work in sweatshops for as little as 60p an hour ((c)Daily Mail)) it's about 140 quid.

So's yours after taxes. :grin:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:36 am

Pooliekev wrote:

('cos remember that all the kids work in sweatshops)

Tell us something we don't know!!!! :roll:

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm

Pooliekev wrote:

all the kids work in sweatshops

lucky kids

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:33 am

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