The last time I had it done it was £13 pounds - this time the guy in charge told me it would be £20 pounds. I told him he was a profiteering arsehole and went on my way.
However it's not the only business which is profiteering. The supermarkets are at it too, both in store and on their petrol station forecourts.
One only has to look at their profit margins to see customers are being ripped off. We all know this is going on but the government and the Labour opposition are doing nothing about it. The main supermarkets alone Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrison have recorded collective profits so far this year of £4.8 billion.
Given the current economic climate you would have thought their profits would be down but they're not' they're sky high. If you check out the data, the reason for this is clear: they are profiteering which incidentally in the UK is against the law.
There is no other explanation so why isn't the government not calling them to account. Why haven't the police been knocking on their CEO's doors? At the very least why hasn't a windfall tax been put on this sector of the economy?*
It seems to me increasingly big or small there is hardly a business which hasn't been profiteering from the small fry like my local car wash to multinational corporations. It's yet another example of us little people carrying the can for a crisis which isn't of our making.
When will we rise up and say enough is enough!
* The second hand car market is another which should be targeted with a windfall tax as the major players have clearly been profiteering.
However it's not the only business which is profiteering. The supermarkets are at it too, both in store and on their petrol station forecourts.
One only has to look at their profit margins to see customers are being ripped off. We all know this is going on but the government and the Labour opposition are doing nothing about it. The main supermarkets alone Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrison have recorded collective profits so far this year of £4.8 billion.
Given the current economic climate you would have thought their profits would be down but they're not' they're sky high. If you check out the data, the reason for this is clear: they are profiteering which incidentally in the UK is against the law.
There is no other explanation so why isn't the government not calling them to account. Why haven't the police been knocking on their CEO's doors? At the very least why hasn't a windfall tax been put on this sector of the economy?*
It seems to me increasingly big or small there is hardly a business which hasn't been profiteering from the small fry like my local car wash to multinational corporations. It's yet another example of us little people carrying the can for a crisis which isn't of our making.
When will we rise up and say enough is enough!
* The second hand car market is another which should be targeted with a windfall tax as the major players have clearly been profiteering.
⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.
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