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Have you been affected by the cost of living crisis?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Yep ! Oil and gas and electricity pricing has been through the roof here in the UK.
Add to that the ridiculous increases in food pricing and non-availabilty of certain things on your weekend shop
@Picklebobble2 It is getting obscene
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Ozymandiaz Getting ? Has been for over a year now.
The government in the UK has had to borrow yet more money to ensure folk can keep the old folks and the hospitals and the prisons and......warm.
That's the problem when you don't own your own energy because you sold it all off back in the 80's
@Picklebobble2 I give 100 to 1 Vegas odds that Brussells forced the UK Parliament to do so.
SW-User
@Picklebobble2 No, it was the ultra generous furlough scheme during the lockdowns, that now has to be paid for.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@SW-User The furlough scheme will be paid for by the next generation.
Gen-x-ers are having to pay for the p*$$*ng away of our pension pots over the last TWO periods of recession since the 90's