[kj] OT: rip off britain?

[Rob's Arse]

I wish that were true Peter.
When the US$ v £ has been at 1.8 for so long you would expect big change.But it hasn't.
Do not forget that oil is traded in dollars. Despite the price going up in dollar terms, the petrol prices didn't come down did they?
Anything imported into the UK in dollars should have dropped in price and the majority of items traded to the Uk are in dollars.

The simple fact is that we Britons just pay more. We are not clever consumers like our French and American friends. If they don't want it, they don'y but it!

If you go to an Ikea store in Europe, you will find prices around 15-20% cheaper. The reason, so the Ikea chief says, is that " The British pay more".

We're just bad consumers. We do not stand up to business. Look at the profits of the supermarkets compared to the plight of the farmers, if we really agve a damn we would all boycott the supermarkets, but we don't. We are lazy and greedy so business takes advantage. A Thatcher legacy methinks.

--- "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com> wrote:


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