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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 3h

This was chat gpt take on it

UK consumer prices have seen a significant overall increase of over 20% between late 2022 and mid-2025
driven by high inflation in 2022 that peaked at 11.1% in October 2022.

Prices up by 20% across the board profits through the roof for the billionaires

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4h

As ministers will well know, a health system that cannot meet demand is a business opportunity for those who can exploit the ability of some who can afford to buy their way out of waiting for care

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

If Labour will pay more for drugs but not increase funds for the NHS, who do they expect to take the pain?

According to The Guardian: Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25%. This has followed weeks of talks with the Trump administration a...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4h

Forget the thugs, the populists, the racists and the bullies. The reality is that without those coming to the UK from outside, we have no hope of having the skills, the society, the economy, the care, and the well-being we all desire in the future

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble

What happens in a country that has insufficient inward migration and a massively declining birth rate (as many, including the UK, are now at risk of having)? The FT has the answer in the case of Japan...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4h

It certainly appears that way George👍

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 4h

It's a fucking disgrace that we live in such terrible times and there are far too many people living with these problems in the UK.
I can only wish you well mate and I sincerely hope your situation improves soon.
They are so far removed from our lives I honestly don't think they have a clue

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Agreed👍
And it is a good book too

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

And in that vast gulf between what ministers are talking about and what’s gnawing away at voters at night, you have the conditions not just for the wipeout of a Labour government but for destabilising an entire democracy.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

This has never happened since records began. It would mean Britons had suffered a decade of no improvement to their living standards. forget the promises of change: the typical family would be worse off – and the poorest families would be losing more than £1,000 a year in disposable income.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Taking household incomes after taxes and inflation and housing costs and mapping them against official projections for the economy, they found that unless Labour acted very soon, it was likely to preside over an outright shrinkage in British living standards.

patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Most governments that serve a full term preside over a rise in living standards of just over 10%. The exception so far appears to be the reign of Boris Johnson/Liz Truss/Rishi Sunak, where living standards look to have stayed the same for the entire five years.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

if Labour ministers carry on pretending that they are helpless to tackle high prices in the face of the markets, they will pay an extortionate political price. A grab bag of means-tested benefits and breakfast clubs at school won’t do it, and extending childcare was actually Jeremy Hunt’s wheeze

patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Dealing with the high prices of housing, food, utilities and transport would require real politics, rather than the fake politics of waving St George’s flags and locking up pensioners for mentioning Palestine Action.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

About 33,000 people have crossed the Channel so far this year
We can talk another time about the rights and wrongs of our asylum system, but just on the numbers that is a number almost insignificant besides the more than 1m households already in the red on their fuel bills and with no repayment plan

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

I asked the Guardian’s research department to count up the number of stories in national newspapers about asylum seekers or small boats or refugees. They found 542 in just the past month. And how many on the cost of living or essentials or living standards? Just 45.

MSM destroying our society

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

In Liverpool last week, Keir Starmer gave his big speech the day before energy regulators raised the cap. The cost of living got mentioned twice in the whole thing. Patriotism? Five times. And flags? Well, there was a whole section on those,

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

“Westminster treats the cost of living as an issue from two years ago; they’ve moved on,”

“But for the rest of Britain it’s still their biggest issue.” At focus groups, he’s noticed that wherever the venue and whatever the subject, those attending can’t stop bringing up the cost of living

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

So here is the UK’s No 1 political problem: rising bills. You may have heard it come up at the school gate or at a local bus stop. You may be among the 58% of British households preparing for a colder home this winter. In which case, you will have been almost ignored by leading politicians.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

polling company More in Common asks voters to list the main problems facing the UK, the cost of living comes top. What about immigration? It’s rising, But when voters are asked the biggest issues in their day to day lives, cost of living or financial pressures come way out in front.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

For most people there are fewer bags in their weekly shop – and that their pay (up by 20% since 2021) hasn’t kept up with either prices (up 28% since 2020) or fuel bills (which have typically risen by almost £500 in only four years).

patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

the Bank of England is no longer panicking about inflation now that it has gone from double digits to hovering around “only” 4%. But that’s little comfort for most households

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Almost four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices rocketing, the average British family is still under huge financial stress

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Whether at Ocado or Aldi, food prices keep rising. School uniforms are extortionate. University tuition fees for the new term – jacked up. And last week the cap on energy bills was hiked – just in time for winter.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Agreed👍

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 5h

Well said👍