The Pratchett estate and author Rhianna Pratchett are supporting a new campaign that aims to spotlight the effect of rising food prices in the UK.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money,” the passage fromreads in part, and tweeted out in full by Terry Pratchett’s former Twitter account yesterday to support the Boots index. “Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars.
A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time andMonroe drew parallels to the famous passage’s explanation to how low-income families in the UK have seen supermarkets either noticeably increase prices on “budget” lines of basic food and goods as the country faces the continuing economic effects of Brexit, the...
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