Tim C. wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:45:56 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >I was thinking that. What happens after a while- rounded up euro prices
> >and weird looking pre-euro ones? :)
>
> it's what happened here. The increases in the prices were blamed on
> "inflation" but just happened to be round-uppable to euro prices.
The UK government is very good at fighting inflation. They just reneged
on an arbitration deal for a police payrise of around £40 million or so,
in order to fight inflation, while allowing train operators to put up
unregulated fares at around twice the level of inflation. Great, init?
:)
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