Is Turkey getting expensive

[mutlusandra]

Hy carlan anything around 3.20 to 3.48tl. BBC news site reported that Turkey is the most expensive place to buy petrol now! Not good news. So in the old money around £1.40 per litre

[carlan]

Thanx mutlusandra, might have to consider a pushbike, anyone know where you can hire a tandem??

[mutlusandra]

I have a large basket on the rear of my bike, have been known to carry one of my poches, I havet got the stamminer yet to do people, work in progress I think!
just to add to info the tunnel has also shot up to 3tl each way (£1.21) more expensive than the dartford tunnel! Good news strawbs are still around 2tl per kilo (for now)

[Colwyn]

quote:Originally posted by sonic008
Where do you get 2.1%??? Cost of living here in UK is up 11.5% !!!!( daily expressMay1st)mortgages up 9.5; gas 18.5; electric 18.8 ; water , with our rain,3.7; home insurance 4.1 council tax 4.00....the only thing under 3% here is the poxy pay rises!!!!

I got the figure from the National Office of Statistics - the day I start getting "information" from the Daily Express I will submit myself for treatment. I used the Consumer Price Index because that is the international standard measure and is directly comparable with the Turkish measure. Of course I know that the Retail Price Index is higher but I have no idea what the RPI is for Turkey - in fact I rather suspect that they have no such measure. In the last month for which data are available (March 2008) UK CPI had risen to 2.5% and RPI was down at 3.8%. Average annual pay rises for the last month that data are available (Feb 2008) were at 3.7%.

[stoop]

Colwyn,

If you blieve the data from the National Office of Statistics you should have been in and finished your treatment by now


Have read of this - and the figures are NOT the Mail's:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560392in_page_id=1770&ct=5

[Colwyn]

Hi Stoop
I clicked on the link and all I got was was the Daily Mail banner and a blank page. I think it is the only page I have ever read from the Mail that was not riddled with with lies, untruths and deceits!

OK, I looked up the Daily Mail archives and found what they call "The REAL rate of inflation" (that is not me shouting it is the Mail). I have to say that even by the standards of the Mail this is pretty damn silly. Their team of experts have discovered that if you take out the things that are going down in price then the remaining things have higher price increases. Wow! Who ever would have believed it! Of course this involves leaving out absurd luxuries - such as clothes. Not to worry you can always wear left over food. Britons throw out hundreds of thousands of tons of perfectly good food every year - despite the fact that it is becoming more expensive. We could make cabbage suits and potato skin shoes.

Sorry Stoop, I'm staying with that fine body of men and women at the National Office of Statistics who actually try to measure the prices of what a broad range of goods and services that people actually buy. And not concoct an utterly bogus list in order to make a political point. Anyway, I'm off to buy a plasma screen TV - apparently they are getting very cheap.

[mike A]

quote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560392in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Oh look, a flying pig, bacon must be going up.

[stoop]

[stoop]

Colwyn,

If you read the article you will see it is NOT the Mail who put the figures together but uswitch and moneysupermarket.com. They just used their figures to show what is really happening.

As for the items they excluded - electrical goods such as TV's and washing machines, plus clothes - yes we all need them BUT they are not essentials.

I shop every week and I see the price of everyday items going through the roof. Add the cost of fuel to that and we have a real problem. Then add in the rising cost of services such as water, electric and gas (all essentials) and you will see the NOS figures are a sham!

Never mind though - if you can afford a new TV or some clothes after all that at least they are cheap due to us buying most of them from China. Oh - and broadband is down in price:D

I'm off to barbecue my old clothes for tea and microwave the tv for afters

[mike A]

Interesting list Stoop.
but what exactly is a Kid Banana. Is it underage or messy, does it misbehave,
maybe its a baby big banana, or a big banana that never grew up, I notice the price hasn't gone up
But I suspect it will when it eventually  matures.