Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "What's behind your spending habits? - BBC News" video.

  1. We should be looking harder at our leaders not our spending habits. Much of this is down to their conscious actions or inactions
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  2.  @0IIIIII  Leaders can make inflation MUCH worse with their policies. Here in Britain, our nation did not contract gas at fixed prices, assuming that the buyers would always be the ones in control. A number of factors stopped that being the case, and suddenly everything down the chain, including electricity, leapt massively in price. In Britain, we also left Europe, which limited the supply of lorry drivers, just at a time when lorry drivers were already hit by poor working conditions and covid. Our government could have responded to the poor working conditions a decade ago as shortages were manifesting themselves. Also, there was a massive gas storage facility which the government allowed to close. Britain has the lowest gas stores in Europe, so yet again, the gas situation hit us harder. I could go on, but you get the point.
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  3. @Mr Teapot Just keep punching yourself in the face at the polling booth then wondering why things keep getting worse.
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  4. @Jimmy Vapes The only things we can collectively do is change our vote or withhold our taxes. Sadly, right wing politiics operates on fear. Their voters' are not just conservative by inclination, but are essentially wired differently, and they feed that.
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