In failing to regulate the food sector, successive governments have allowed industry giants to flood the market with products that make us ill
ritain’s system for producing and distributing the food we eat is not working. Last week, we learned that UKan astonishing 19.1% in the year to March. Yes, they are rising everywhere, but faster in Britain – over 2022, 40% higher than in the EU. There are frequent shortages of key products. Two million people used food banks last year. British consumers eat more cheaper, fatty food than other Europeans. As a result,, the highest in Europe besides Malta and Turkey.
Every malfunction of British capitalism and the British state has combined in a perfect storm, fuelled by the way the laissez-faire consensus – inflamed by the rightwing media – frames our understanding of society. We are unhealthier, at greater risk of dying early and facing a deeper cost of living crisis than our peers in the EU. People should be as angry as hell. This, rather than the small boats influx, should be at the heart of our national conversation.
Food inflation will start to fall in the months ahead – world food price inflation peaked in October – but the structural weaknesses will remain. The fall will be slower than elsewhere, not least becausehas imposed a layer of additional costs on household food bills – an average of £210 per household over the two years to 2021, estimate LSE researchers.
But the anti-EU critique had its roots in the right’s ideological belief in minimal government, the perfect power of free markets and the moral and economic imperative of running an economy and society around individual choice and responsibility. There should be no “nannying” by government, especially unaccountable EU bureaucrats from whom Brexit freed us. Business should be allowed its head; markets will do what they will do; individuals should take their chances.
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