OFFICIAL: Food price inflation is higher in the EU than in Brexit Britain

Latest data from OECD shows enormous food price rises across Europe

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Facts4EU.Org’s research shows how food prices are soaring in parts of the EU

This week the OECD released its figures for inflation for the month of October. When it comes to food prices – which affect us all – Brexit Britain continues to beat the EU27.

The OECD’s data showed massive increases in food prices in some EU countries, even greater increases in other European countries, and they showed that Brexit Britain has LOWER food price inflation than the EU27 average.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Food price inflation in Europe, October 2022

It’s worse in the EU

EU27 : 17.3%
UK : 16.4%

[Source: Latest OECD official data, released 06 Dec 2022.]

The Top 10 highest food inflation rates are in the EU, NOT in the UK

Hungary : 42.9%
Lithuania : 33.7%
Latvia : 29.5%
Estonia : 28.0%
Slovak Republic : 26.0%
Czech Republic : 25.1%
OECD - Europe : 23.5%
Poland : 22.0%
Germany : 19.2%
Portugal : 18.6%
EU27 average : 17.3%
Slovenia : 17.2%
United Kingdom : 16.4%

[Source: Latest OECD official data, released 06 Dec 2022.]

The ONS and British Retail Consortium put UK food price inflation even lower than the OECD

It should be noted that measures of inflation by different organisations vary.

Whilst the OECD says UK food price inflation in October was 16.4%, the Office for National Statistics puts it at 16.2%. The British Retail Consortium put it at 13.3%.

Food price inflation in the run-up to Christmas

The increasing price of food is a topic which has come up many times on the BBC, Sky News, and ITN in recent weeks. Typically we are shown interviews with managers of UK food banks, telling us how many more customers they now have.

We could not find one BBC report in November or December on food prices which mentioned that the UK is suffering less than the EU. Below is a typical BBC headline from November.

In the data summary above we have shown the raw facts released by the (pro-EU and Paris-based) OECD this week, showing what it says are the actual rises in food costs across the EU. The precise percentages might be disputed, but the comparison using this one methodology clearly shows the UK consumer doing better than the average EU consumer.

Observations

Food price inflation has been caused by several factors, from the Bank of England’s policies, to the government’s Covid policies, to Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.

What we have shown above is what you won’t see on the BBC, Sky News, or ITN. The picture is actually worse in other countries, with food price inflation now running at 23.5% in Europe, compared to 16.4% in Brexit Britain. Even if we confine ourselves to looking at the EU27, their average rate is higher than that in the UK, at 17.3%. In the EU's official candidate country, Turkey, it's now running at an out-of-control 99%.

For food prices to go up in the UK is of course worrying for a great many people. The fact that they are not going up in the UK as much as they are in the EU may not be much solace.

All we can say is that it could be worse. We could still be in the EU….

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Reader Comments 30

1. cairo mick , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 06:41:

so the question is why?

2. Buster , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 10:17:

So two thirds of voters think Brexit has gone badly.
What the hell is wrong with the other third?
Maybe they are on the prescription drugs the rest of us can’t get due to Brexit?
Lol.

3. Paul j , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 10:27:

Remoaners love polls even though they are always wrong, lol

4. Paul j , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 10:51:

You have to love how certain rejoiners on here always change the subject when the EU is shown by facts to be worse than the UK.

5. KB , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 12:06:

Buster (2). I've not seen these OECD inflation figures featured on the BBC News or Channel 4 News. I'm sure such an important story will be reported soon (not).
Perhaps if stories like this were actually reported by the MSM, the poll figures would be different?

6. LuxuryBalloon , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 13:58:

1 Cairo Mick. It looks like Eastern European countries like Hungary and Lithuania are affected worse by food inflation than Western Europe countries. Maybe these countries are more negatively impacted by Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine and the resulting boycott of Russia’s goods.

7. Janet Fryer , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 14:27:

Bloody Brexit... wait

8. Old Albion , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 14:38:

Buster (2) I'm a 100% Brexitist. But you know what? It hasn't gone as well as it should. (though it's not actually at fault for all the nonsense you spout)
The reason for that is not Brexit per se' It's the failure of the current government to exploit the opportunities presented. Mind you Covid was a distraction !! and since then, the Tories have lurched from one crisis to another.
A sensible Gov. could and should make a resounding success of Brexit. I'm still waiting for the 'sensible' bit.

9. Buster , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 15:18:

But no sensible government would ever have done Brexit. The two are mutually exclusive.
Now I don’t dispute that none of you had thought hard enough about the realities of Brexit in 2016 to actually realise that’s what would happen. You’d all had 40 years of factually inaccurate stories about bendy bananas and metric martyrs and loopy European judges - so that when that combined with the migrant crisis in 2015 and the arrival of lots of non-white people you gave zero thought to what the EU had actually done well. The many bits of membership which had actually hugely benefited our country were not on your radar.
You never understood that the EU and the single market are not the same thing. None of you had the first clue about the customs union. You didn’t know the distinction between the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. You didn’t understand how the EU worked, what it did, what it did well and which bits were clunky and needed improvement. You were all woefully ill-informed. Worse, the people who led you were woefully ill-informed - to such an extent that many still don’t understand the basics all these years on.
It is inevitable that Brexit will be undone. Young people hate it - and they simply won’t put up forever with this absolute mess you lot have imposed on them. If you want any chance at all of Brexit lasting you all really have to grow up.
None of this matters much to most of you. You are mostly elderly men. Your careers are over. You are in your twilight years. But this matters a lot to your kids and grandkids because your Brexit stuffs them over in multiple ways.
How about this Christmas you all take the time to listen to the younger people in your lives? Not to lecture them about how you know best - you really don’t. But listen to them about how what you voted for has hugely harmed their generation. Their stories will often be heartbreaking. Is that really what you wanted?

10. David Whittington , Saturday, December 10, 2022, 15:18:

This is why I love facts4EU, it gives the news the MSM won't mention.

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