Poor old Mr Brown! He understands economics and, because of that, he knows it is not his fault and there is nothing he can do about it. There are two big reasons for the increase and he has no involvement in either.

The first is the dreadful, virtually Stalinist, governments in China and India have loosened their grip on their economies and, as a result, their people – a third of the population of the world – are quickly getting richer. Hundreds of millions of people who used to survive on a handful of cereals and the odd vegetable can now afford to eat meat and, as a kilo of meat takes eight kilos of cereals to produce, demand for cereals has shot up.

And when demand goes up, so do prices until the farmers catch up and start producing enough for everyone. So, all things being equal, we can expect food prices to go back down again, in four or five years' time.
But all things are not equal. The second reason for the increase in food prices is the climate change fanaticism of the European Union. Their officials have decided to go into competition with the poorest people in the world and buy up the cereals they struggle to afford to keep their children alive.

Why have they done it? To destroy it as food and turn it into biofuel for our cars. They have a truly warped and perverted logic on their side. By taking the food out of the mouths of starving black, brown and yellow children, they can produce a fuel with low carbon emissions and thus save the world.

Our parents and grandparents would have recognised these people. They knew unelected, Continental officials who governed virtually the whole of Europe by controlling the governments of nation states and thought they could purify the world by the death of people of other ethnic groups.

These modern tyrants have only just started. They have imposed laws on the Government of poor, pathetic Mr Brown requiring him to take more and more of the food out of the mouths of the poor. Over the next 10 years or so, they have ordered him to increase the amount he takes more than twentyfold and have ordered the other European nations to do the same.

If you Google the phrase "food riots" you will see hungry non-white people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are on the march and ready to die to save their children from the menace of rising food prices. As the climate change fanatics of the EU increase the world price of food, we will buy our children fewer computer games and take them on fewer holidays, but the poorest of the world will watch their children die.