Zack Polanski: 'Food is too cheap'
Zack Polanski has said food is too cheap and called for new rules to force supermarkets to pay suppliers more.
The Green Party leader claimed vegetables selling for as little as 7p was evidence that somebody was being exploited in Britain’s food supply chain.
Mr Polanski accused supermarket executives in a speech on Monday of making record profits on the back of underpaid workers.
Speaking to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union on Monday, he said: “That is not a sign of a healthy system. Someone is being exploited somewhere, and if you’re paying 7p for vegetables, then something is not right.
Zack Polanski is busy chasing the incoherent politics market.
That is not a sign of a healthy system. Someone is being exploited somewhere, and if you’re exploiting turnip voters, then something is not right.
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Capitalism works because suppliers, retailers and customers negotiate by 'price'. If one of those suppliers, retailers and customers is not happy then there is pressure to find different suppliers, retailers and customers. But there is no guarantee that someone, somewhere will not suffer while capitalism does its stuff and finds a new balance.
Politicians try to be popular (or kindhearted) by limiting the suffering but this is doomed to failure sooner or later. A knowledge of the history of price and wage controls *over the last two millennia* shows this to be true.
This time it will be different? I don't think so.
DJ - I agree, this time it won't be different. Making politically-motivated suggestions of this type are cynical opportunism and Green voters should take note of that, but they don't and won't and Polanski exploits their ignorance.
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