And while the Prime Minister's strategy now is hoping that the retailers hear the distant drums of enforcement, the leader of the opposition says - as he sees it - the. Answer is not so much in price control - as it is in providing more layers on that famous social safety net. The press spoke with him at the airport today:
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"The most important thing is finding a way to allow the cushion to be there. That is first and foremost to have a safety net that those that are hurting can find relief. It is really inhumane and callous the way this government goes about treating with the most vulnerable, treating with an eroding middle class and working class to ensure that they can face the brunt."
"They can face the tornado that is inflation. The first thing is to accept that there are people suffering because of inflation and as a government we need to have a relief act, an inflation act to make sure that certain people that are suffering because of inflation they get certain types of reliefs so that they can manage and weather this storm of inflation."
