Last night I heard him blame the steep rise on unemployment announced yesterday on the ‘global situation’.
True-ish if you are an exporter and your customers on the continent are not buying for the same reasons as us. We are not the only country in the mire. I need loads of people to buy PV panels to keep me in work but mainland Europe have reduced or stopped lots of subsidies, the Spanish house building and power generation projects have stalled. So there is truth in what he says but you will only know that if you are affected.
atm the haves can afford stuff and the have nots still cannot anyway. Those of us in the middle are contributing to this thread 💡
Locally, like everywhere else probably lots of council workers have lost their jobs, maybe they were non-jobs only time will tell. A good number of these jobs were low paid the same as a lot of the shos that were selling “cheap” goods that are disappearing from our high streets.
Rumour has it our local award winning Honda dealer has not sold a new car for 3mths!!! In a small town like mine the usual flood of new reg cars is noticeable by it`s absence.
As for my austerity measures my only pleasures are my bikes and grand kids, just risen to 4. I rarely drink out, have never smoked, have cut down on magazines certainly and the number of trips to ride away from home have decreased dramatically as has eating out. I am only using 1 bike instead of 2 😥
