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I’ve just sent off a petition to the Government asking them to mandate that U.K. supermarkets lower their prices, because food has become an unaffordable “luxury.”

🔗 Link in bio to sign🚨🪧‼️

Working in adult street homelessness and youth crisis homelessness, I saw daily how unreachable basic items already were. Now even the average earner is feeling the same pressure.

Food prices are utterly RIDICULOUS. Last night I saw a basic Co-op cheddar for £6.07. £6 for cheese?! Insane.
And while average people are now cutting essentials just to get by, what does this mean for the people I used to support? People who - even before these rises - had to choose between food and transport to the Job Centre or college. People so stretched they’d take toilet roll from our staff loo (which we always quietly allowed).

No one should struggle for bare necessities. Yet here we are - sacrificing the rest of the month if dishwasher tabs and washing machine tabs fall in the same shop. It’s not good enough. In a supposedly “forward” country, why are so many of us barely coping?

So this morning I had an idea - and ran with it.

I need a minimum of 5 signatures before the petition can even be reviewed, but why stop at 5? Let’s share it far and wide and flood them.

If you have five minutes, please head to the link in my bio to add your name. I’ve had enough - and my heart breaks for those in even worse situations.

If you refuse to accept these prices as the “new normal” when wages aren’t rising to match, please sign. Prices must come back into a sensible range and be kept within a fair threshold. 💪🏼🪧

Samantha xox

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EDIT:
It’s already at 20 votes and capped until approval! I’ll re-share once it reopens. 💪🏼

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