Aren ' t your rent and ' bills ' all set under contracts with your landlord and the various utility suppliers ? The cost of these won ' t increase until you ' re due to renew the contract . Tax also essentially only changes following the Spring budget . <| sep |> The quote under the headline makes it sound like they ' re describing Farron , not Farage . . But yes , great performance . <| sep |> I would say so , but it ' s subjective , I ' m sure there are people working in the EU who genuinely think this is the only way to do it . The Euro is in dire need of reform towards the US model that includes fiscal transfers between states . Unfortunately Northern Europe has spent the last few years painting Southern Europe as lazy , feckless people who only want handouts , rather than accept that fact . It will probably take another crisis before they can shift their position to one where the ECB is used to roll out some sort of fiscal stimulus for the whole of Europe .