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[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as cost of living pressures ease

Like the rest of the media, The Guardian is helping to make out that - as inflation supposedly falls - food and energy prices will fall. That's not what's happening - or will happen. Prices will continue to rise, just not so sharply.

I can't see how "cost of living pressures" will go away without deliberate price cuts. AND THAT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE UK.

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deliberate price cuts and wage rises at the level of inflation.

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Yes. Agreed.

But what is that....? The sound of Sunak refusing decent pay rises to public sector workers and allowing the triple lock for Tory-voting old people to add £10 billion a year to government spending.

Or, and now hear me out, wage rises that are a fair bit higher than inflation like boomers enjoyed for most of their lives.