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   @jamesadey8744

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   Sunak's mind boggling fast and free spending and the lockdown policy put us where we are now. It's ironic that people expect Sunak to be the one who digs us back out the hole he put us in.

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   @mikythesaint6507

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   This is insane. Its Gov policy that’s got us into this mess- how will inflation go down when there is a Fuel Shortage (man made by policy) sanctions on Russia that affect the west more than them. They are trying to drive down demand while going green in winter – the West is finished. Windfall tax will just mean no investment in fossil fuels. Idiots will still glue themselves to paintings and the road. All the time we are walking towards a cliff blindfold and laughing.

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   @REX4340

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   'they're trying to bring inflation down by pushing uk inflation up' oh dear someone needs more coffee!

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   @peacedreamerable

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   TAX THE BANKS TO ZERO PROFIT .

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   @insuretec

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   This is crazy and will add to inflation through wages and price hikes. The inflation is not demand driven , it's a deliberate artificial problem on the supply chain side.

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   @pauloakes5718

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   The rise is paying for all the government cock ups!

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   @What..a..shambles

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   Let's print and print till inflation is 2% anyone with a brain can remember their horsevsh1t!

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8. 

   @HarryFlashmanVC

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   You vil own nozing unt you vill be heppy!

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9. 

   @farmerned6

   January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

   High fuel & energy costs and printing money = Inflation

   Raising interest rates = further cost of living increases, mortgage defaults, business's that struggled through covid with Bounce back loans go bust

   big business's and the rich are rubbing their hands, thinking of the fire sales of property they are going to buy

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    @richardduplessis1090

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    This is all contrived, in the same way the global 'famine' is contrived. Why would governments in 1st world countries warn of food shortages and then take farmland out of food production? many of us KNEW that when they were pissing tax revenue down the drain and giving all their cronies huge government contracts, that high interest rates would be imposed to squeeze the poor into oblivion.

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    @jumperjunior804

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    Inflation was not caused by too much money, but the deliberate suicide of government policies, due to Covid. So no need for interest rates to go up, as the fuel prices are already removing money from people, so this is more about removing home ownership

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    @TG-ts3xn

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    The cost of Covid Lockdowns.

    Don’t forget USA printed 600 years’ worth of dollars in ONE year😅
    We’re screwed.

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13. 

    @15kilkenny

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    You vil own nothing

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    @glynnwright1699

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    Interest rates aren't being 'hiked', they are returning to the levels that existed for hundreds of years. Jane Austen references interest rates of 3% – 4%. Good luck to anyone who managed to benefit from artificially low interest rates over the last twenty years, but don't ask for sympathy from savers who have funded your lifestyle during that period, now that the cost of money has returned to normal.

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15. 

    @fakenewssucks211

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    All by design

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16. 

    @sebastienloyer9471

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    With the politicians

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    @sebastienloyer9471

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    IT is because of economists we are in this trouble.
    Send him back to the closet.

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    @lkearney7299

    January 25, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    As the US has raised rates (again) we pretty much have to do the same.

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