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4.2% Anyone ?

Intoodeep · 2012-01-17 09:39:13

As anybody with a grasp of mathematics and a calendar could have told the meejah, Inflation down to 4.2% and that doesn't yet include the 'effects' of the vat rise, so will inevitably drop again next month.:beer:

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hallmark Posts: 1,480 Forumite

18 January 2012 at 9:53AM

StevieJ wrote: »

It was minus (deflation) as recently as Oct 2009, funny how the mind can play tricks when it wants to

LOL at deflation in 2009.

You're confusing actual inflation with the CPI or RPI figures. The difference is that both of those are nonsense, carefully designed to keep "official" inflation as low as possible. And probably the single most insidious scam being foisted on the UK public today.

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