Consumer inflation up 27% in Feb from Jan.

CPI at 2.3% (as compared to 1.9% in January), as according to the ONS.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices

I make that a rise of 21%? Am I doing my maths wrong?

No, you're not.
I was trying to be delicate about it; not something I'm very good at.

Labour's civil war has erupted in furious clashes at a "brutal" meeting between leader Jeremy Corbyn and the party's MPs and peers.

As the Westminster meeting ended in a shouting match, angry Labour MPs rounded on Mr Corbyn, with one MP, ex-minister Ian Austin, telling him to "look in the mirror".

Corbyn ally, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, was heard shouting at another critic of the Labour boss, Wes Streeting, after he said the party was being "driven off a cliff".

Ex-minister Pat McFadden then told Mr Corbyn: "Our uselessness is emboldening the nationalist right wherever it exists."

And the former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), Lord Watts, told Mr Corbyn's spin doctor Seumas Milne to his face that he was "a disgrace".

The gift that keeps on giving (unlimited political power to the right wing).

Christ on a bike, I don't even think you thought they would be this bad, Cavey!

Christ, not me.

We lived hand-to-mouth until relatively recently, and even now I pretty much blow everything on really stupid stuff.
I have the financial planning skills of a 10 year old in a sweetshop.

Beyond that, even - how many people have the '3 months salary for a rainy day' that is such standard financial advice I read it multiple times a year? An awful lot of people would be in huge trouble if they didn't get paid one month.

"For when he loses freaking mind" account.

If you get a pay rise do you have to add more money to the account?

insured to fuck

I basically give all my money to MrsZ and ask if it's alright to get stuff when I need it.

We've done alright with this system so far.

6 MONTHS!!!!

GET YOURSELF A QUADCOPTER YOU DUMMKOPF!

Title.

It's mrs K's money.

London: now slightly less unaffordable.

It's not like the left have a long and noble history of infighting and squabbling over inconsequential bollocks;



There does seem to be a lot more buyer's remorse appearing for those people that voted for Corbyn though. Those that refuse to countenance any faults in their great leader appear to be entrenching themselves even further to the point where they may as well just call themselves SPLITTERS.

This is my favourite exchange of recent times though, likened on Twitter to an Anime film, a badly dubbed Kung Fu film or terrible game cutscene dialogue.

I think Corbyn's political goals are far less alienating than his complete and utter incompetence. I'd be able to vote for someone on a leftist platform, but only if they proved themselves capable at running things.

Corbyn is to the left of me (though he's not some raging insanity / his politics would be considered normal in, say, Norway), but I couldn't vote for him simply because he's completely useless at running his party.

I won't bore you with my finances, but taking a year off taught me to live on less, and that has stuck so far. Thanks to gorgeous George threatening to take away pension tax breaks, I now whack extra into the pension, pay little income tax (sorry, NHS) and the bit of my salary I do get just tops up the cash I live off. I am an aberration.

There's a reason why "You'll never defeat me Anakin! I hold the sensible middle ground!" isn't a famous Star Wars prequels quote.

Labour will vote against any final Brexit deal unless it delivers the “exact same benefits” as the UK enjoys currently within the European Union, Jeremy Corbyn says.

Fucking hell.