Are we really being ripped off?

How dare u ! we have a right to complain! OUR HUMAN RIGHT! which is being slowly squished by lazly uneducated small minded fools like you! when all money we work hard for disapears in tax and living costs, so we can never save or hope to get any were in future like a morgage or married education, or to help our children get educated. Stop talking verbal diarrhea!

£2 a month a can feed a starving child in Africa!
So why then when the begging adverts come on TV for the UK homeless \ hungry does it cost £12 a month to feed them?
Why don't they get the food from the same companies that supply Africa for £2 a month?
Or are they actually doing this and pocketing the other £10?

A very Intelligent Letter Rags,
Unfortunately we Live in a society where everybody thinks there is a "conspiracy" against them.An Intermediate study of history, reveals we Live in the Best times ever.

It's only a rip off if you allow it to be. Look around and you'll always find it cheaper. Of course there are some items you can't avoid having to pay full amount.

A fool and their money are soon parted.

Rip off is still here

Bread £1.22 per loaf because of the cost of Deisel and petrol. Petrol has gone down.
Alcohol VAT down Duty up, it is cheaper to Holiday in Mexico for two weeks than in this country.

Rags you are talking out your esra. A sandwhich don't cost £3 to make .Overhreads may be high but not on that scale. I know that some folk just moan about payign too much and that is probably true in most cases although they often have the choice not to pay the prices or avoid these situations. The reason why companies often charge the earth is because they can get away with it and folk are stupid enough to pay / are forced into it by nagging wife/partner/kids. Garages have huge overheads but they rip you off because many of the folk that go there are twats who think the garage must be right and cant be bothered looking at something themselves. Britain wants to stand up for itself, stop buying new cars, stop taking finance out(where possible), stop the obsession with celebrity and start doing all possible to live a simpler cheaper life to force the cost of living down

The Credit Crunch will, in the end, cost this country more than 7 times the cost of the first world war, the payments fro which lasted 3 generations.

"bbc tv license / petrol / cigs / beer / electricity / gas / food bills / car mot / airfairs / need I go on for the average person living in the uk .compared with other euro countries do you think we live In a rip-of britain .the government Is the biggest criminal force In europe .just my opinion !"

.... and with respect, a worthless one as there is little foundation for your statement. Compare disposable income in other European countries (after tax and social charges) with that in the UK, and then extrapolate the cost of these items based on that, and you'll see you are talking through your backside.

The whole of Europe is a massive rip off, but UK is not the worst, even if it seems it because the paper that Gordon Clown pasted over the cracks is now well and truly peeling off.

bbc tv license / petrol / cigs / beer / electricity / gas / food bills / car mot / airfairs / need I go on for the average person living in the uk .compared with other euro countries do you think we live In a rip-of britain .the government Is the biggest criminal force In europe .just my opinion !

bbc tv license / petrol / cigs / beer / electricity / gas / food bills / car mot / airfairs / need I go on for the average person living in the uk .compared with other euro countries do you think we live In a rip-of britain .the government Is the biggest criminal force In europe .just my opinion !

Yep, there is no more need for this discussion. Its topic has been resolved. There is no more Rip Off Britain. The Devaluation of the Pound Sterling last week has made us Cheapo Britain, and everywhere else a rip-off, except Iceland,

For over 20 years consumers and citizens have been truly and fully ripped-off, That's all past history now. The rip-off caused the Credit Crunch and now the Recession. We needed to borrow trillions to pay for the rip-offs, now we will have to spend the next 10 -20 years paying for them.

Welcome to Slumpo Britain.

Slumpo Britain will have a cleansing effect. No more yuppies. No more phoney merchant bankers. No more Thatcherism, No more phoney house prices.

If you were not on the one way proverbial rocket to the Moon [as an Accountant, Estate Agent etc.] last week as a useless professional you have missed the boat. Start queuing at your local unemployment office.

Proof that we are all being ripped off by all the main shops.

Recently my very cheap and nasty TV decided it was going to give up the ghost, this ment I needed to get a new one, money being the biggest issue I was limited to what I could get. When I visited all the major retailers the average price for a TV was £350+ when my limit was £250 tops.

In the end I was dragged to an auction by my mother, well what a shock, I am now the proud owner of a panasonic 32 inch viera brand new hd ready, for the sum total of £180, with warranty, the thing is they were selling 3 piece leather suits for £80, brand new fridge freezers for as little as £20. The list goes on, my advise is if you are strapped for cash, get to an auction you will not be let down, beats paying the sky high prices the big chains charge.