Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK due to Iran war

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• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ffs. All because some orange cunt doesnt want people to see the proof of him diddling kids

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  • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If we didn’t let him use our airbases to launch attacks it would be considerably harder. Our government is complicit, and supports it

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• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is this the third or fourth excuse in the last 5 or so years for the excessively rich to rinse the rest of us of more money and go off and hoard it? Isn’t it time that the excessively wealthy did their part in this forever-“cost of living”-crisis?

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  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Grocery prices may rise, but eating the rich is always affordable

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a shame every country affected couldn’t sue the US and Israel for compensation.

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• DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Let’s not forget who was pushing for Britain to back this war and let’s not let them forget it either.

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• Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  will it go back to their normal price ever?

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Things don’t go back to “normal prices”, prices will always go up (ideally) and your wages go up to balance.

    The issues we’re facing at the moment is a pretty constant series of inflationary shocks and the controls governments and central banks have on trying to balance them tend to work on a much longer time scale resulting in sharp decreases in people’s spending power.

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      and your wages go up to balance

      Damn, seems like they keep forgetting this part

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Food was horrifically underpriced before, as supermarkets fought price wars and drove many producers to ruin.

    Brexit has hit farming hard and Britain no longer benefits from the singe market.

    We’re in a very dry spell and the harvest will suffer greatly this year and for the foreseeable future until theres a very wet few years.

    So no, prices aren’t going back.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The concept of “normal price” doesn’t make sense

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  • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That would mean negative inflation, which probably wouldn’t be great for the economy.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, negative inflation is a short-cut to economic collapse. Imagine if you knew a thing you wanted to buy would be 10% cheaper in a week and 25% in two weeks. Why would you buy anything today?

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The consequences of not decoupling from the usa decades ago even now the west refuse to put pressure on the usa and israel to end the war and blame iran instead

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pretty glad I recently fixed my mortgage for 5 years at £200 a month less than it was, I bought the house shortly after Truss fucked the economy. Now I’ll use that money to buy a potato.

  More seriously though food for the 2 of us is under £30 a week at aldi and we could cut back quite a bit if necessary.

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• Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fear not your king will save you.

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