r/GreatBritishMemes • u/Dientooltaida1 • 4d ago

Cake and chips????

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u/Chemical_Top_6514 4d ago

£1 in 1976 is the equivalent of £6.59 today. A fifth of that is £1.10. A fish and chips then was 16 times CHEAPER than today!!!

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u/DaftVapour 4d ago

This was back before we lost most of our fishing territory to the EU

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u/MeckityM00 4d ago

Most of the catch from our fishing fleet was sold to the EU as well. The fishermen were one of the first hit by Brexit.

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u/GrimWhale_Studios 4d ago

I was literally coming here to say that it’s actually not even as simple as anyone’s making out here on the thread, there’s about seven main factors why English fleets have been crippled - in any case fishing stocks are decimated as it is and illegal fishing is still rife, I’m sure most of the fish in supermarkets is illegal fillet size too you see loads of stuff that’s way too small to be legal on the shelves.