Martin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:57:19 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >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?
> >:)
>
> Despite which EU inflation is higher than in GB.
I was less worried about the inflation- more about what is duplicity on
the part of government- I think we can expect a quiet stand down on the
position over police pay. It's outraged a lot of backbench labour MPs
too...
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