No, I tend not to trust mass governmental data. It tends to be a little suspicious and also seems rather cooked with them doing anything to bolster the books such as counting drugs and prostitution which are supposedly against the law. They shouldn't really arrest you then! Anything to topple the French numbers, eh. Likewise, inflation is a cooked number and has little connection with reality which I think most people on the ground would attest to. Inflation is more than the official figures say and along with wages that do not increase, that inflation becomes a serious burden on people. One of the most obvious signs of inflation is in property and rents. At the end of the day people need somewhere to live and under Thatcher alone rents doubled. Would anyone care to compare the cost of a home or rents since Thatcher? That in itself is crippling inflation. At the end of the day, Kirkland. Inflation is simply about 'Is my cost of living going up?' and most would likely respond with a simple 'Yes'.