Supermarkets admit milk price fix

[TheShaggyDA]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7132108.stm

It's a bit much when supermarkets take the piss with basics like milk, butter and cheese.
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[JonB]

Especially considering farmers get such a poor deal as it is.
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[Hetzer]

Gee, what a suprise, the UK supermarkets are run by criminal scum and have been raping the working mans pockets. Who would have thought it!

"Every little helps".

Hang on, I think I can hear Yoko coming..."Their milk rocks and is fairly priced. And if you don't like it nobody's forcing you to shop there!"
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[JonB]

[TheShaggyDA]

Asda, Sainsburys and some dairy farms have been fined a total of £116 million for this. I bet they're crying into their buckets of money, as it was estimated they made £273 million out of the price fixing. Some fine, it should have been twice what they made.
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[Hetzer]

I'm not up on farm subsidies, but it sounds like they're just one more govt financial abuse amongst thousands. I lump all that stuff under one category, I simply don't have the mental energy to get wound up by every single specific example (I kind of graze the field and have the occasional chomp).

I'm fielding the idea of organizing a general strike. Don't laugh, governments have been toppled as a result of nobodies like me engaging the general public mood and focusing it. Usually by accident, because it's not often somebody can see the end result of something that started as a bit of a wheeze.

It's when hate becomes action that things sometimes happen. Ain't we all feeling the hate? Ain't we? Utter hatred of the scum filth and vermin destroying our country and the quality of our lives? Our supposed servants, dictating to us like masters to slaves, ramming ever more unwanted legislation down our throats and telling us to like it or lump it, or else.

If we don't do something soon it'll be too late. They will, ultimately, remove all freedom to do anything effective. It'll probably come under some new variation of the Anti Terrorism laws.

Who's interested?
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[stinkwheel]

Well. We must have about 40 dairy farms in the practice. Of those, five have gone out of milking in the last 12 months because it is no economically viable.
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