Reeves & Treasury Cretins Demand Food Price Caps – The Stupidest Idea Since Brown Sold the Gold
Posted by Ken Frost – The Loanbuster – 20 May 2026
Blimey, you really couldn’t make this up.
While British families are still being hammered at the supermarket
checkout, Rachel Reeves and her Treasury geniuses are reportedly
floating the idea of price caps on food. Yes, actual
price controls – the sort of economically illiterate nonsense usually
reserved for failing socialist states and banana republics.
This is cretinous on every possible level.
Price caps don’t magically create more food. They don’t reduce the
cost of growing it, transporting it, or stocking the shelves. What they do
create is shortages, black markets, lower quality, and supermarkets
pulling popular lines because they can’t make a profit. We’ve seen this
movie before – and it always ends in empty shelves and frustrated
shoppers.
Here’s the truth the Treasury’s spreadsheet warriors refuse to accept:
The Real Way to Cut Food Prices Is Sitting Right in Their Hands
Supermarkets and food producers are being absolutely crucified by
government-imposed costs that Reeves and Starmer could slash tomorrow if
they weren’t ideologically brain-dead:
- Green levies and energy taxes — These add hundreds
of millions to supermarket and supplier energy bills every year.
Refrigeration, lighting, transport fleets — all hammered by Miliband’s
net-zero obsession.
- Carbon taxes and environmental compliance costs — Passed straight through to your weekly shop.
- Employers’ National Insurance hike — Reeves’s £25 billion raid makes every warehouse worker and delivery driver more expensive.
- Planning madness and energy price insanity — Making it harder and costlier to build efficient distribution centres or grow food domestically.
- Regulatory burden — Endless pointless red tape dreamed up in Whitehall.
Cut these green taxes and bureaucratic burdens and food prices would
fall naturally through market forces. Instead, Reeves wants to slap on price caps like some 1970s throwback, guaranteeing higher costs elsewhere and punishing the efficient operators.
This is classic Labour thinking: ignore the root causes they
themselves created (taxes, energy costs, regulation), then reach for the
blunt instrument of state control to “fix” the problem they made worse.
Genius.
The Treasury knows full well that food price inflation has been driven by:
- Sky-high energy costs (thanks Ed)
- Supply chain disruptions
- Tax raids on business
- Weak pound and imported inflation
But rather than cut their own green taxes and NI burdens, they’d
rather play God with price controls and blame “greedy supermarkets” for
the mess they helped create.
Let’s be crystal clear: Price caps are for idiots and authoritarians.
They distort markets, reduce supply, and always hurt the very people
they claim to help – working families who end up with less choice and
higher prices long-term.
The means to genuinely lower food prices are entirely in Reeves and
Miliband’s hands. All they have to do is stop waging economic war on
British business and energy users. But that would require admitting
their entire green-left agenda is financially toxic – and we all know
that’s never going to happen.
This government doesn’t want solutions. It wants control.
Resign, Reeves. Take your price cap cretinism with you. Britain
deserves better than ideological vandalism dressed up as compassion.
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Ken Frost
Professional Cynic, Chartered Accountant and unrepentant Loanbuster
www.kenfrost.net – exposing economic illiteracy since 2005
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