Monday 24 March 2008

David Cameron says government inflation figures are wrong

Glad to see the Tories are finally catching up with what everyone has know for a long time. My posts of this go back years, for example. The Telegraph has run an excellent inflation monitor for a long time too.

With the high commodity prices and rising oil price inflation here is to stay for some time. About time the Opposition to the Government focused on this

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  1. It's tricky to find the governments 'inflation basket' anyhere.Luckily I have access to it.
    Here are just some of Darlings Inflation beating products.

    General items:
    Meet the Fockers DVD
    42" Plasma TV
    Daily Mail
    Playstation 2
    Thermal paper fax machine
    SodaStream
    Pub ashtrays
    The Macarena cd
    Stars in their Eyes series 2 [VHS]
    Goblin Teasmade
    Fiat Tipo
    Electric blanket
    Nokia 2210
    moustache wax

    Food
    Tinned strawberries
    1/2 a grapefruit starter
    supermousse

    Fuel
    pink Paraffin
    Charcol Brickettes

    Housing
    Polarisworld.com Alicante 2 bedroom apartment
    Army married quarters

    Prices show a constant fall since 1979. RPI/Cpi shows a slight rise of 0.2% for February due to Parafin rise, slightly offset by a fall in the cost of carbon paper.

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  2. now we just need them to 'fess up on the crime figures and stop chanting 'Crime Is Down'

    trouble is, since most (English) local authorities are Tory and they all have crime reduction targets, and since senior Policemen are all on crime-reducing bonuses,

    they too all have an incentive to sign up to the manifestly false NuLab crime figures

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  4. According to The Daily Mirror, the Goblin King is about to admit that mortgage write-offs could be £295 billion.

    Your version of the inflation story is correct, however it is rather bizarre that the BBC heads up their article "Cameron attacks big price rises" as if he were calling for price controls. Which I wouldn't put past him, to be honest.

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  5. That Daily Mirror link doesn't work, sorry.

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  6. Anonymous9:38 am

    It seems to be a long time since there was a new issue of Index Linked Savings Certificates available for purchase, even though the drop in the yield on Index Linked Gilts suggests that a new lower-yielding issue is overdue. Presumably the government doesn't want people who already own their maximum of the current issues buying more. That argues that the government thinks that index linked investments are attractive, because the punters think that inflation is a threat.

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  7. BTW Mr Q that is funny

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  8. The BBC reported a week or two back that memory sticks were to be added to the "basket". What did they do - find the item with the fastest-falling price to put in to flatter the figures?

    Our stat-culture is not unique, the Yanks have been at it for just as long.

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  9. Anonymous11:07 am

    Inflation is even higher in the US. An insolvent bank that was worth just $2 a share to JP Morgan last week is worth $10 a share this week!

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  10. BQ - You would think they could just get a list from John Lewis like the MP's do eh?!!

    MW - brown thinks he is showing off to Sarkozy when all he is doing is showing off his ignorance.

    Dearime - saving them up for a big lot, then when the market is desperate to gobble them up the gov gets a better deal; joined up government - only when the masses are to be mugged.

    Ed/RS - The US too has the same problem with its government as you say. the only time you can ever get a change is when a new government gets in power and is happy to go with bad news stories for a while. The EU is stuck with our stupid CPI too so they are in the same mess.

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  11. Why haven't they then - it's their job.

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  12. I think they are a bit lost on the road JH!

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