The argument was about inflation, not food inflation alone. Even if only food prices are considered, one can say that its hard to trust UK's numbers in anything since the Tories that are ruling there have very funny ways of measuring things. Like how they recently have declared that homeowners were actually 'creating and also consuming rent services' and bumped the UK's GDP a fair bit.
Even we gloss over it and trust the UK's own numbers, the Eu inflation in February would have been driven by mostly Germany with ~24% inflation compared to the ~10% most of the major countries have.
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However it still does not make any difference since prices are irrelevant if there simply arent groceries and they are being rationed. That was the point.
You're either completely misunderstanding all of the figures you're reading, or you're arguing in bad faith. This has already been explained to you by others, this is my last message to you.
Either food inflation or general inflation, the UK has similar rates to the rest of Europe.
The Tories are not in charge of deciding the inflation rate in the UK, it's from the Office for National Statistics and all the financial lenders would be very quick to voice their disagreement if they thought otherwise. Suggesting that the values coming from the UK are fake is an extraordinary claim which you have no evidence of.
Germany has a general inflation rate of 8.7%, this is below the EU average. They are not driving it up.
Groceries were rationed because UK supermarkets refused to buy them at spot-prices. The UK had a shortage of peppers while Sweden etc had peppers at 10€/kg.
Even we gloss over it and trust the UK's own numbers, the Eu inflation in February would have been driven by mostly Germany with ~24% inflation compared to the ~10% most of the major countries have.
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However it still does not make any difference since prices are irrelevant if there simply arent groceries and they are being rationed. That was the point.