(Lots of money talk in the UK today as the Chancellor of the Exchequer° has released his ‘spring statement’°).
….surging inflation will [cause] the biggest fall in living standards in any single financial year since records began in 1956.
An anecdotal tweet coming from a Daily Mail journalist° isn’t the most trustworthy combination. But still, this quote speaks volumes about just how expensive gas and electricity is in the U.K. right now:
…some food banks are rejecting potatoes and root veg because people ‘can’t afford the energy to boil them’.
I was at food bank in Leicester recently and heard of someone who when given fresh food commented they would now need to switch the fridge back on.
Also the Telegraph°:
The packed lunch is back. As office workers return en masse, John Lewis (for my non-UK readers, John Lewis is a shop, not a person by the way haha) reports that sales of plastic food containers are up 64 per cent on the same week last year.
