Ah. The trick is that most of the time, news articles only compare with France's inflation numbers which are much lower than the rest of Europe - so this makes

Ah. The trick is that most of the time, news articles only compare with France's inflation numbers which are much lower than the rest of Europe - so this makes it seem like only the UK is suffering from this problem. A lot of public enthusiasm to rejoin the EU semes to be based on this kind of completely false, media-constructed belief that they don't have the same problems and therefore the UK wouldn't either if not for Brexit. (France's debt-to-GDP ratio and I think possibly their deficit as well is worse than the UK's and even less compliant with Eurozone rules. This is probably directly linked to their lower inflation since they're reliant on heavily subsidising energy prices to keep that down.)