Eu average is ~9%.
General inflation: UK 10.4% vs EU 9.9%
Food inflation: UK 18.2% vs EU 19.5%
Same reason I can't say UK inflation is 10.4% and much lower than the EU's 19.5%. They're measuring different things.
Even we gloss over it and trust the UK's own numbers, the Eu inflation in February would have been driven by mostly Germany with ~24% inflation compared to the ~10% most of the major countries have.
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However it still does not make any difference since prices are irrelevant if there simply arent groceries and they are being rationed. That was the point.
Either food inflation or general inflation, the UK has similar rates to the rest of Europe.
The Tories are not in charge of deciding the inflation rate in the UK, it's from the Office for National Statistics and all the financial lenders would be very quick to voice their disagreement if they thought otherwise. Suggesting that the values coming from the UK are fake is an extraordinary claim which you have no evidence of.
Germany has a general inflation rate of 8.7%, this is below the EU average. They are not driving it up.
Groceries were rationed because UK supermarkets refused to buy them at spot-prices. The UK had a shortage of peppers while Sweden etc had peppers at 10€/kg.
Yeah, and that's a Japanese institution not British. Its incorrigible like the BBC...
> Suggesting that the values coming from the UK are fake is an extraordinary claim
Its as extraordinary as other claims like Iraqi WMDs or the GDP numbers generated from 'homeowners creating and using rent services'.
The trust of Brits in their institutions is amazing.
> Groceries were rationed because UK supermarkets refused to buy them at spot-prices
Surely not because of Brexit... It has to be something else.