Not sure how well travelled you are - I have doubts...

But are you aware the cost of living crisis has been far worse in much of the EU? How can the cost of living be high in mainland Europe when they didn't leave the EU? Well,there are two primary factors. A lot of this stems from QE to support COVID lockdown - which obviously drives inflation. Then there is the cost of energy policy. Energy in France is relatively low because they ignored protesters and built nuclear power plants. Energy in much of the former eastern bloc is / was incredibly high because DE/EU told them they couldn't burn coal, so they built gas plants and then the cost of gas went up massively after RU invaded UKR (note food costs strongly correlate to energy costs - google energy waterfood nexus - and note that the UKR war is perceived as a consequence of Merkel delegating DE/UKR defence to the US and DE/UKR energy supply to RU. Then while many countries were in dire straits with energy prices, DE decommissioned nuclear and reverted to burning coal).

So your £4 bag of chips is in all likelihood a consequence of energy prices linked to fertiliser production and transport, not Brexit.

Posted By: Timmy_Goat, Dec 14, 22:52:55