50,000 strong march in London

mayonnaise

antrobus wrote: »

Consumer confidence encouraged by recovery of economy
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/consumer-confidence-encouraged-by-recovery-of-economy.24549146

The average UK household now has £171 a week of surplus or "discretionary income" - up £4 a week year-on-year - thanks to an inflationary fall in the cost of food, clothes, mortgage interest payments and plane tickets.....It was also another record month for the labour market with the fastest rate of employment growth since 1989, with an additional 780,000 people in work.

It looks like the revolution will be postponed for a while.

Food shopping has become markedly cheaper over the last year, especially for basics and fresh fruit and veg. And meat.
Our weekly food shop which often topped £300 only a year back is now much closer to £200-250. :beer:

Graham_Devon

mayonnaise wrote: »

Food shopping has become markedly cheaper over the last year, especially for basics and fresh fruit and veg. And meat.
Our weekly food shop which often topped £300 only a year back is now much closer to £200-250. :beer:

What are you feeding? A mini mayonnaise tribe?

mayonnaise

Graham_Devon wrote: »

What are you feeding? A mini mayonnaise tribe?

lol...
Just the two of us.
But I shouldn't have said 'food shop' but 'weekly shop', because it includes items like shaving/bathing/washing stuff, magazines/papers, a sleeve of cigs...etc...

Graham_Devon

mayonnaise wrote: »

lol...
Just the two of us.
But I shouldn't have said 'food shop' but 'weekly shop', because it includes items like shaving/bathing/washing stuff, magazines/papers, a sleeve of cigs...etc...

Even so, you must be living like a king to spend £200-250 on 2 of you each week.

Scoffing through £35 worth of food a day even allowing for a £75 weekly shop of shaving and washing stuff....

Little porkies again?

antrobus

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Even so, you must be living like a king to spend £200-250 on 2 of you each week.

Scoffing through £35 worth of food a day even allowing for a £75 weekly shop of shaving and washing stuff....

Little porkies again?

You missed the bit about the "sleeve of cigs". Now, I'm not entirely sure about the exact definition of a 'sleeve of cigs', but a ten peck of branded 20s probably sets you back £80 or so these days.

And besides, have you seen the prices in Waitrose? I could burn up £200 dead easy in there.

The_White_Horse

just a load of mentally ill cretins. This is EXACTLY the same as poor parents saying they are cutting back on the christmas present spend, and a load of aggrieved and ignorant toddlers marching that they want their presents! No cuts to our presents!!!!! NO CUTS!!! just keep spending the money that isn't there.

mayonnaise

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Even so, you must be living like a king to spend £200-250 on 2 of you each week.

Scoffing through £35 worth of food a day even allowing for a £75 weekly shop of shaving and washing stuff....

Little porkies again?

Not at all.
But if you really want to dissect our shopping basket...around 150-200 per week on food and drink, around 80 on cigs, then the non-food stuff.
Less than 15 quid per person per day on food and drink, I wouldn't call that scoffing?

Masomnia

antrobus wrote: »

Consumer confidence encouraged by recovery of economy
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/consumer-confidence-encouraged-by-recovery-of-economy.24549146

The average UK household now has £171 a week of surplus or "discretionary income" - up £4 a week year-on-year - thanks to an inflationary fall in the cost of food, clothes, mortgage interest payments and plane tickets.....It was also another record month for the labour market with the fastest rate of employment growth since 1989, with an additional 780,000 people in work.

It looks like the revolution will be postponed for a while.

Is this the cost of living crisis we keep hearing about?

N1AK

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Change is coming!

People are no longer willing to watch their salaries, their living standards, and their liberty, fall year on year while the revolting greed of the 1% and their poodles in Westminster continues unabated.

Is it the whopping 20,000 protesters here that makes you so confident :rotfl:

Or perhaps it's the huge political swing to UKIP well known for their policies of high taxation, big spending and love for welfare spending :rotfl:

No one, who has the slightest amount of perspective, thinks that there's a big socialist change coming to Britain. The only people sympathising with public sector workers over page freezes are other public sector workers on pay freezes; the rest of the UK working in the private sector has suffered the same and is sick of hearing people telling them their jobs are worthless and it's only hard working public sector nurses/policemen/whatever that deserve more.

N1AK

mayonnaise wrote: »

Not at all.
But if you really want to dissect our shopping basket...around 150-200 per week on food and drink, around 80 on cigs, then the non-food stuff.
Less than 15 quid per person per day on food and drink, I wouldn't call that scoffing?

We spend ~£40-50 a week on food for two. We're pretty tight but I think I'd struggle to spend £100 let alone £150-£200. Perhaps I should upgrade from peanut butter to caviar on my toast!?