Unilever’s attempt to use plunging pound as an excuse for price hikes was an outrageous attempt to fleece shoppers
We are delighted the greedy firm and its EU-loving boss have backed down
THE Brexit price hike on Marmite was an outrageous attempt to fleece shoppers.
We understand that the weaker Pound will increase the price of imported grub.
But Marmite is a British product made here from home-grown ingredients.
Tesco was dead right to resist the rise. It cannot be coincidence that the Dutch boss of the spread’s maker Unilever is a staunch Remainer who predicted just such price rises if we voted out.
This smacked of a blatant attempt to prove himself right and profiteer.
We’re delighted his firm’s backed down.
A sick rip-off
NO ONE drives to hospital for fun. They’re patients, carers, family or friends.
For many of them public transport isn’t an option. So it’s indefensible for an NHS Trust to charge them £4 an hour for parking. That’s daylight robbery.
Of course every Trust is under the cosh financially. And of course they invest the proceeds back into health care. We should hope so!
But plenty of Trusts provide free parking or charge only a couple of quid a day. That seems right.
What is equally galling is that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt knows what a rip-off this is. The Sun has been highlighting it for years. But his only action was a set of guidelines two years ago which Trusts cheerfully ignored. A third have raised their fees in the last year.
Come on, Mr Hunt. Get the funds from the Treasury — and scrap the charges.
Scot it wrong
MOST Scots don’t want another independence referendum.
Most would again vote No if offered one. They now know that with the oil price so low they could see their income tax or VAT double just to keep an independent Scotland afloat financially.
And Nicola Sturgeon knows if she lost a second referendum she’d be toast. So, naturally, yesterday she said she wanted one within two years.
The SNP leader reckons Brexit is reckless folly. But tearing her country away from the UK looks positively suicidal. Still, it fans the flames of the party’s grievance against Westminster.
And gives them a welcome distraction from what is their secondary concern:
Governing Scotland competently.
Idiot Wind
LISTEN to the snooty bookworms carping at Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Why not? He basically invented the meaningful pop lyric. Besides, this is the Nobel Committee we’re talking about. It might well wonder why it ever gave Barack Obama or the EU the Peace Prize.
When it comes to Bob . . . Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.