Keir Starmer has warned us to prepare for inflation in a recent speach.

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errr haven’t we just had a 50% ruse in food prices alongside huge utility and energy/fuel hikes? I heard that and thought how much fucking higher are we going before people are unable to pay their bills?!

Which countries ?

Someone, somewhere in the UK is making a lot of money out of this.

BP making a killing on the fuel crisis.

A free range chicken in Sainsbury's on Saturday was £18. My cousin in Australia bought the same size free range chicken on Saturday for £8.

This is all a piss take isn't it?

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People are finally waking up to the fact that it is absolutely unfair that some of us try to do the ‘right thing’ work more than one job, pay tax, limit family size to what we can manage financially and all the rest of it, while others simply look for what they can get out of the system across a wide range of different benefits.

And by ‘the system’ I mean UK taxpayers. It isn’t Govt money as the government seems to think. It’s our money and they have a duty to spend it more responsibly than at present.

It is not sustainable.

Everything related to oil prices. Fertiliser for food fuel for transport. Companies want to make money/pay shareholders. Oil companies and traders are doing well. Unfortunately for Starmer he can't control these events and it would be the same if the Opposition were in power. Benefits are an issue as is an ageing population but people on benefits aren't all driving in motability Range Rovers

I agree, the whole world is going to suffer, not just us. They have a malignant narcissist with Frontotemporal dementia according to many specialist neurologists/psychologists, and the feckin sycophants around him do nothing. I can’t forgive that government for doing this, absolutely abhorrent.

The United Kingdom in 2026 is operating under a renewed inflation volatility regime, driven not by domestic demand overheating but by external supply-chain shocks and energy geopolitics, particularly instability linked to the Middle East and sustained volatility in global oil markets.

Recent reporting indicates that inflationary pressures have re-emerged after earlier stabilisation expectations. The Bank of England has warned that inflation could rise significantly above target under adverse energy scenarios, with projections reaching as high as 5–6% in stress conditions driven by oil price escalation.

Simultaneously, thinktank analysis suggests the UK economy faces a potential £35 billion shock risk and recessionary drag if global energy disruption persists, reinforcing the fragility of the recovery cycle.

Within this environment, Keir Starmer’s public communication has shifted from general cost-of-living framing to explicit inflation preparedness signalling, warning households that price stability should not be assumed to persist.

A reported 2026 statement directly linked to inflation expectations highlights this shift: Starmer has warned voters to “prepare for an inflation spike” linked to geopolitical disruption and cautioned that even after energy corridors stabilise, prices will not immediately normalise.

This marks a transition from reactive inflation management to anticipatory economic conditioning.

these professionals are leaving or reducing their hours en masse.

Re wealth tax - can you evident your point? Because many countries did try this and reversed pronto. Wealth taxes cost significantly more than they brought it. Behavioral impact

Correction, Range Rovers were never on the list of motability cars, I should know I lease one. I have M.S which is progressing and choose to use my mobility PIP allowance to pay for the lease of a car that has to be renewed every 3 years.

I always require an automatic due to struggling changing gears because of the spasticity and never drive if having an off day, as advised by my neurologist. I apply for my medical license every 3 years, can no longer walk upstairs, walking is generally exhausting and painful with fatigue. My car is my legs and at times I get frustrated when everyone thinks they’re for free and we’re freeloading.

If I was able to work I would, I had to leave a great job as a PA at BT. The type of car I need always has an advanced payment of approximately £2500, it’s getting more expensive as the majority of cars now are electric. Fortunately my husband works and earns a decent wage otherwise I wouldn’t be able to afford the advanced payment. I love my freedom that the car gives me, but I’d much rather not be in the position I am with an incurable disease. PIP is a lifeline for many of us with god awful neurological conditions, 🌼

BP might be making a killing on oil prices but lets not forget that over 50p a litre of what we pay for fuel goes to the government, plus 20% VAT, so despite Rachel Reeves denying last week that the Government are profiting from fuel hikes.....I suppose they're going to have make up that revenue from the move to electric cars are well.

The regional wealth tax in Switzerland and similar in Spain also Norway.

We are in a terrible starting point because our energy costs are already the highest in the OECD and our growth has been flatlined for 15 years.

Both Tories and Labour have been appalling at addressing these absolute fundamentals. But Labour is in power now and blaming this on foreign wars doesn’t really wash when so much of our energy costs are a consequence of this govts own policies. Nor are they fixing housing, the other major CoL contributor. What do they think govt is for if not getting these major policies right.

And Farage supports this pointless and illegal war.

or they know more than the general public about the war etc, how many times in wars in history does the public know the full details until many years afterwards so if that was then then why should now be any different ?

Farage isn't in power and not in a position to do or as may be the case not do anything about inflation right now, the Labour Government are.

So what's the answer then?

It always boggles my head that keir starmer gets blamed for absolutely everything. Someone even blamed him for the war recently. It's fucking weird.

Navigating everything as a leader of any country isn't a job I would want to do any time soon. But people do like to flap their gums.

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sure, when there is no even remotely reasonable explanation let's believe he knows something big, he just can't be wrong

He did. He's since backpeddled.
If he has have been in charge, he would have trotted is right in there. Then people could have added feeling unsafe in their homes to their list of complaints.

its not weather hes wrong its a case of trusting our security services, unless of course you have better sources ?

But Starmer is in charge and the only one that could lead the country into making things better, saying that things might be worse under Farage doesn't actually improve things right now. I remember the last night Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, a little girl whose mum got up at 3am to clean the commons ever day asked him why are things so hard for us? and he had no answer, after 13 years of a Labour government, life had actually got a lot harder for low income working people. Last time I was in London the amount of homeless people on the strand had exploded compared to when i worked there daily. my point is, the gap between working people and the super rich just keeps on growing and life for working people just seems to get harder, I'd like the Government - whether that's Labour/Reform etc to do something about it.

Butter will be £3.50

2l of milk around £3

Forget fruit and veg unless you're won the lottery.

Nobody will able to.afford heating next winter.

We are fucked.

Absolutely fucked

what Farage has to do with our security services? I hope they don't report to him at present

What is likely to happen is similar to the US, where very low quality, low in nutrition substitutes pop up.
Like rolls of ground beef or turkey which are essentially chub roll dog food for humans.
It's beyond repair.

Fixing the countries issues will take cross party organisation, which will never happen.

What's coming will be world wide. At least in the UK it's unlikely to lead to starvation like in poorer countries.

That’s a very naive assumption but it’s true in some respects that we found out after certain wars e.g Iraq (no weapons of mass destruction were found) Afghanistan, Libya all to destroy terrorist groups and support regime change but none of that was achieved and they became more unstable afterwards. Causing people to flee on mass and causing the problems we have no with ‘boat people’ coming here.

I knew Iran was about to be hit the day before it was general knowledge, due to inside information via family with connections to the US military so we know plenty, trust me.

Trump didn’t get approval from Congress, so it is an illegal war. The U.S. strike hit a girls school in the first few days causing over 200 civilian deaths - all Iranian girls at school, No other world leaders have supported him because of legal concerns, civilian harm, and fears the war would escalate.

Trump was advised by top military advisors not to proceed with the war because the straight of Hormuz would be closed immediately causing major disruption to the global economy but he thought he knew better and went ahead and now look at where we are and what has been gained exactly?

He also said it would end quickly, but it didn’t and has had to negotiate with Iran putting the US in a much weaker position than before the war started. What exactly do you think Nigel Farage knows that we don’t here? He doesn’t know the price of a pint of milk in Asda ffs.