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Originally posted by 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.
The Mail has commissioned these organizations to put together a list based on what the Mail wants included. If I commissioned them them to produce a list that left out mortgages (because I don't pay one) and left out motoring costs (because I generally use public transport) and left out newspapers (because I don't buy them - no surprise there) they would come back with an entirely different set of figures.
As for this being "what is really happening" that is just tosh. I do not spend all my income on food, energy, housing and tax. Nor do you. Nor do the vast majority of people that you and I know. There are huge numbers of people throwing their money about on useless things like buying national lottery tickets, watching football games (even some in Leeds I am told), phoning "Get my Celebrity Big Brother Out of Here", and buying the Daily Mail.
Nevertheless, the April UK CPI figures (from the ONS) have just been released and they have risen to 3.0% (annual). This is quite bad enough. But this thread is about Turkish prices. The April CPI for Turkey was
9.66% (annual) - but there is probably some populist newspaper saying that the real rate is 57.2%.
