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The price of chips

I don't know what the official Bank of England inflation rate is now. I do know that when I walked into town at lunchtime yesterday to treat myself to a small portion of chips, it had gone up from £2 (at the start of the summer) to £2.90 - a rise of 45% in a matter of months.

I suppose chippies are right at the sharp end of things at the moment: rent increases, food price increases, energy prices going through the roof. And there's no help for small businesses, because there's no actual government at the moment. No-one is running the country, heaven help us.