Sales See Inflation Fall To 4.2% In December

The economy grew very slightly in the last quarter of 2011 ,and yet the boy scribblers from Sky Murdoch News continue to talk the UK down by insisting we are already in recession. What hidden agenda are Murdoch News pursuing in their continuous drip feed of bad news?.

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All the inflation figures given are 100% true, they must be your government provided them. Nothing to see here please go back to sleep people.

Only because the consumer has been bled dry and has no money left to spend.

Too late the damage has been done.This will do nothing to help the poverty in the UK.

See what happens when people hold back on spending just for the sake of it, the shops drop their prices and price wars begin, which is good for us the consumer, we the people ultimately do have the power .........we just need to find a way of using it collectively more often ..........energy firms next......ok everyone on the count of three switch your tv's and computers and lights OFF.........one .............two ......................three

Asda were selling 6oog of cheese but when you looked at the packet there was only 550g in it.

Perhaps the people that come up with these figures should begin to realise, that although inflation 'may' have gone down, the real cost of living hasn't! Rather than buying new clothes, shoes or a new television I'd prefer the supermarkets stopped their so called 'promotions' and instead gave us real price drops. They tend to raise items to a certain price, after a while lower that price, whilst still maintaining the cost above the initial price! My experience in visiting various supermarkets have shown very little real reductions in costs. I'm more concerned with the inflated prices of food and energy rather than a total that encompasses inflation on many goods that are not necessities. Plain Honest English Please!

shop local and only buy what you need not in supermarkets

Figures may be right but a drop in inflation fueled by selling stuff off cheaply is not a good sign.

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND BELIEVES INFLATION IS ONLY 4.8% ? ;LIES DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS !!

Clear evidence of price fixing! If the supermarkets can find savings of this order now, why were prices escalating before? I note that Tesco's halving of Clubcard points freed £750,000 which means that £1.5 billion has been circulated into this customer confusing Ponzi scheme. It looks as if the corporate monsters were deliberately putting up prices so that as the cuts bit, they would have more fat to cut.

More nonsense churned out by the pathetic media, it is obvious to anyone with their eyes open that inflation is MUCH higher. It shows the level of manipulation evident here, this article is clearly fiction

Westminster cooks are at it again!

inflation falls? hahahahahahahahaha yeah right!!!!

4.2% SURELY a misquote ? move the deciminal point because in the real world where Osborne and Cameron do NOT have to live then 42% is nearer the true figure...

good, does that mean interest rates can up now?

hmmm, must be the drop in price of moats and chandeliers making the difference.

Thankfully we have a Conservative government in office once again. 18-months and already the results are storming through. Can't understand why any working person would ever vote for the other crowd. Mind you, maybe that's the clue, eh?

I have my doubts about the figures, as the ONS has time and again shown that they get revised upwards in time.