If milk had risen in line with house prices...

Engelbert

It would cost £9.71

Nicked from http://www.shelter.org.uk/

I like this campaign, it really encapsulates the unaffordability issue well.

(Sorry if already posted - I couldn't see it)

carolt

I agree - great campaign.

It is just truly socking, isn't it, that one of life's most basic essentials has been allowed to be caught up in a speculative bubble.

If it was food, as the posters point out, there would be riots - we'd never stand for it.

Yet millions of families have to live in overcrowded and unsuitable conditions, and that's fine. Apparently.

ukcarper

What would a gallon of petrol be

The_White_Horse

whats the point of comparing an asset to a drink that will go off after 1 day and be useless.
woiuld be better if it was compared to gold - but maybe not as effective.

ukcarper

And the price of milk has been forced down so much dairy farmers are giving up at an alarming rate

Engelbert

Not just milk

If everything had risen at the same rate as housing our lives would be untenable. A dozen eggs would cost £9.30, a bunch of bananas £7.86 and a pack of button mushrooms £8.49*. You can imagine the cost of a weekly shop

From Shelter website again...

Ron2256

It's a shocking statistic but what it also shows is that food is quite cheap at the moment.
Take the subsidies away, let the free market do his thing, and soon enough some people will tell you that we are only leaving on a small island and there is so many cows we can keep on this tiny island. Price of milk can only go up.:eek:

lostinrates

I agree, its all shocking (and has horrors beyond what it means about farming/and social values) but what would parma ham have been? and smoked salmon and champagne? It seems to me goods that were truly luxury when I was a kid....very, very infrequent special purchases, are now cheaper and are in ''normal'' shops year round.

CLAPTON

an absolutely daft comparison; apart from fashionable spin it is quite meaningless

people live in over crowded accommodation because of the relationship between the number and types of homes and the number of people wanting to occupy the home

if we want people to have more space per person we need to build more house and/or reduce the number of people wanting housing

if we want to distribute the available housing more 'fairly' then we need a government that's committed to redistribution of housing.. maybe to each according to their needs and irrespective of price.

I fancy 10 Downing St.. just so convenient; has its own parking and good security; pity about the neighbours though

markharding557

If we keep importing people at the rates of the last few years we are going to need lots of tower blocks to accommodate them all.

Cleaver

carolt wrote: »

I agree - great campaign.

It is just truly socking, isn't it, that one of life's most basic essentials has been allowed to be caught up in a speculative bubble.

If it was food, as the posters point out, there would be riots - we'd never stand for it.

But you rarely hear people complain about the price of milk nor the cost of either renting a property or their mortgage. For most people both milk and living costs are affordable. So no one riots about either.

On a related note, I popped in to M6 services tonight as I've been working away and I'm sure the 4 pint of milk I bought at the garage wasn't far off £9. Not a very MSE buy.