Inflation is again with a vengeance.
With prices hovering the outlook is grim, particularly for low wage earners who spend most of their revenue on heating and meals, the very areas during which value will increase are heftiest.
Tiree islander Karl Hughes needed to promote his residence on account of sky-high diesel costs at his native storage.
He isn’t the one one struggling. All of us are. Or are we?
Tory toff Jacob Rees-Mogg boasts that his metropolis associates are “jogging alongside” amid stories that bonuses within the Metropolis are again on the ranges they have been earlier than the 2008 banking disaster, for which nobody within the monetary sector was held accountable.
Boris Johnson wails that he can't be held liable for the state of the financial system both however that's one other blatant twist of the reality.
Inflation in Britain is increased than in European nations as a result of we're paying the price of Brexit, which has been a catastrophe for the financial system and is predicted to wipe a mean £470 of employees’ wages yearly of this decade.
Why ought to key employees shoulder affect of the cost-of-living disaster?
On the identical time Johnson needs to loosen controls on bankers’ bonuses.
This can be a prime minister that thinks before everything about his fats cat mates on the expense of working folks.
Now’s time to behave
COVID is on the rise and with a number of new sub-variants in circulation there are fears of a fourth wave.
It's, subsequently, important that the federal government does every thing inside its energy to drive down transmission earlier than the extremely infectious New York variant takes maintain.
Nobody needs a return to restrictions on our each day lives however folks want to assist break the chains of transmission by taking wise precautions like carrying face coverings in crowded locations and assembly up outdoors if attainable.
The Scottish Authorities additionally has to make sure the autumn booster programme is able to kick in for essentially the most weak in our nation.
Public well being skilled Professor Linda Bauld believes anybody over the age of fifty must be added to the booster programme.
The Scottish Authorities must take her advice to the .Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
Covid is rife once more, with an estimated 180,000 Scots contaminated, and we want each weapon in our armoury to defeat it.
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