I Know this is in the wrong section but I'm so angry....

[mountainboo]

I just went to get some milk and it's gone up 23%. Apparantly bread has gone up too. Milk has only recently gone up and now its gone up again. How the hell are we all supposed to survive when the price of food has gone up dramatically along with the bloody interest rates!!! GGGGGRRRR I'm fed up with this country

[4getmenot]

It went up even more round my way as I keep picking up Organic!! then only realising when I get to the till and have been in a long queue for ages.

[Beads]

I've not noticed an increase yet but will keep my eyes peeled.

[confused79]

i tend to buy own brand bread cos i cant get over how much hovis is etc most places its over a �1, takes the biscuit dont it.

[rasmus]

Its because of the summer floods,twas on the news.

[mountainboo]

It bloody does. I would buy the own brand bread but it ususally goes stale within 24 hours. Although Hovis is very expensive it lasts for atleast 7 days. I'm gutted about the milk as I get through 4 pints in 2 days

[eyeshade]

Petrol is said to go up as well soon, plus interest rate just went up. Have recently been told we may not get a rise in January but a cost of living in June next year so will be looking for a new job! Funny how prices can go up whenever they feel like it but nobody watches whether employees get a rise to cover it all. Our council tax went up 70% !!! Now I'm angry.

[4getmenot]

lets rob from the rich and give to the poor, who's with me?

[Ethel]

Milk and bread are far cheaper in real terms than they were 20 or 30 years ago. I pay �1.60 for a six pint carton of milk - that is less than 27p a pint.

In 1979 a pint of milk was 15p - that is 52p in today's money.

In 1980 a standard loaf was 35p -equivalent to �1.04, a high end loaf today. You can buy a loaf from 18p upwards in the supermarkets.

In 1989 interest rates were 15%.

I think grocery shopping is a lot cheaper in real terms than ever and hope the interest rates hurry up and increase.

[The Sherman]

right ethel food maybe cheaper in real terms but everyhting else aint! just ask someone with a mortgage or a car!

and the resaons that wages arent going up is to try and curb inflation, the more money we have to spend the faster the inflation will rise when the government wants it to drop just now so thats why wage increases this year werent what they should be!

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, apparently the prices have gone up from the floods earlier in the year.
Wait till you see the price of toys at xmas.
I dont know if your aware but the containers of toys which came from China were all having to be re-checked.
Come november/december if these all fail there will be hardly any toys on the shelf.
Its not this country's fault mountainboo, its the people in it...

[Panic Button]

I haven't had a pay rise in three years, and there are none likely, because there is an influx of Poles and East Europeans keeping the wages down.

[libertie]

I'm employed in a food manufacturing company and the price of butter has more than doubled from around �1.600 per ton to �3.500 - so dearer biccies on the way folks!!

[libertie]

By the way panic button a recent report from the TUC has clearly stated that there is no clear evidence to suggest that employing immigrant workers is keeping wages down..minimum wage and all that!

[Panic Button]

No biccies now then!

[Panic Button]

Clear evidence! Why is my industry (road transport) not increasing wages in line with inflation then?

[Octavius]

If only we could return to the good old days of owning a cow and growing wheat. Then we could spend any spare time we have milking the cow, sewing the seeds, watching it grow (hopefully - never a guarantee) and then reaping the harvest so that we could dry store it, grind it down into flour and then pop along to our neighbours for some eggs, drag some (probably impure) water from the local well and start making some dough. After al of this we could pop out into the forest to gather some firewood for our �oven so that we could turn the dough into bread. Now, lets just hope that you put some of that milk aside for making butter and cheese, because then you would have to�..

It�s a hardship, that�s the paradox of a fiscal policy. But not such a hardship as some of the nations of the world who are not able to pop along to their local shop and have to walk miles (na cars for them) and miles just for some water.

[libertie]

http://business.edp24.co.uk/members/editorial/ coverStory/story.aspx?

Hope this link works!

[libertie]

If you click on Cover Story at the top then scroll down to Migrant workers holding it together the report is ther.....hopefully!

[theonlyone]

I bought a pint of milk in the co-op and it was 42p , i'm sure it was 37p last week , but who gets the extra money? sure it's not the farmer . When I bought a large loaf off the bakery in Tesco it was 94p , never realised until I got home ,glad I don't have loads of children , as they are always hungry !! do they really have hollow legs !! Yes mountainboo i'm now really peed off with this country . You are not alone with your sentiments .

[Rubyrose]

This country is shot to sh!t! We pay taxes on our bloomin' taxes for christ sake!
And more and more Brits are moving abroad.