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Rising inflation is bringing more and more Britons to their financial limits. With falling wages, the prices of individual foods have increased by several hundred percent within a year.
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More and more Britons are relying on food banks to get food.
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The reason for this is rising inflation. At the same time, workers are earning less and less money.
AFP/Ben Stansall
In addition, many foods compared to were significantly more expensive in the previous year.
AFP/Ben Stansall
In the UK, the rising Inflation leads to more and more poverty.
While wages fall, food and energy costs rise.
Individual people need to are already deciding between eating and heating – and in April energy prices are likely to rise again by 50 percent.
“I’m really struggling to make ends meet,” says Heidi in line at the blackboard East England Colchester. Many Britons are currently in the same situation as the 45-year-old. The inflation in the UK
rose in December by 5.4 percent to its highest value in 30 years. Real wages are falling, food and energy costs are rising.
Food banks in the UK are now on a real run. Everything has become more expensive, says Heidi. She now has to spend around £80 (€95) a month on electricity. Last year it was still between 40 and 50 pounds.
The food bank in Colchester, which is located between supermarkets in a commercial area, gave out a total of 165 tonnes of food last year , enough to feed around 17,000 people. The head of the board, Mike Beckett, estimates that the number could rise to 20,000 people in need this year. In the worst case, it could be up to 30,000 people, he says. “A nightmare.” According to the organization Trussell Trust, which administers the food banks, the number of visitors to the food banks nationwide rose from 26,000 in 2009 to more than 2.5 million last year.
Rice price increased by 344 percent
The journalist and activist Jack Monroe suspects in particular that the sharp rise in the cost of many staple foods is behind the misery . Their actual costs have risen much more than the official inflation rate , as she calculated in a much-noticed post on Twitter. 500 grams of the cheapest pasta at her local supermarket would have cost 29p a year ago, Monroe wrote. Today the price is 70 pence – an increase of 141 percent. The price for the cheapest rice increased by 344 percent from 0.45 pounds to a pound.
“The system with which we Impact of Inflation is fundamentally flawed,” she criticizes. “It completely ignores reality and the real price hikes for minimum wage people, dinner-goers and millions of others.”
Energy costs are likely to continue to rise
“People tell us that they sat in the car for 20 minutes or an hour before they had the courage to come to us,” says Beckett, the head of the board . Many “didn’t think they would ever need it.” But they had no choice. “When it’s cold, people have to choose between eating and heating.”
More Britons could soon be in trouble, because in April the cost of living for British Households expected to rise again. In addition to tax increases, the reason is above all a significant price increase in energy costs by a whopping 50 percent.
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