Free bus rides for children aged 15 and under during August, the fuel duty increase pushed back from September to December, and a 12-month vehicle tax holiday for hauliers. All well and good, but you would have got more out of Boris Johnson, whose Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, went on as Prime Minister to try to get the supermarkets to sign up to voluntary caps on the price of staple foods.
I am not keen on giving control of food prices to Rachel Reeves. But in the last couple of days, and in the midst of considerably worse food inflation than three years ago, such caps have been screamed down as the end of civilisation, and those howls from the seven-figure salaried bosses of supposedly barely profitable corporations have carried the day. If their market were as cutthroat as they claimed, then no such measure would ever have occurred to anyone.
And how many of their employees are paid in-work benefits to be able to buy the products that they handled? Two out of five Universal Credit claimants are in work, even though there should be no such thing as in-work poverty, the mere existence of which proves that the economic system needs to be replaced. At the very least, no one with a full-time job should be poor. How can that be a controversial thing to say?
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