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Mike's Minute: Government's moves won't mean cheaper groceries

Communism has finally arrived and it's lobbed into Countdown.

Or New World or Pak'nSave.

Anyway, your can of beans will now be priced by David Clark.

I am assuming suppliers will be happy. Under the Government's threat yesterday, and that’s all you can call it, supermarkets have to cut a deal with anyone and everyone at commercial rates.

What's a commercial rate? Well, once upon a time in a free and open country that was an arrangement between a person selling something to a person buying something.

Under the Labour regime, if they don’t like that arrangement they will step in and tell you…

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