While the government has definitely done a lousy job in terms of managing inflation in Singapore especially with the nonsensical 9% GST hike in the midst of a historical high inflation environment, this Telegraph headline is extremely exaggerated and sound more like conservative propaganda to convince the British masses that although the UK is in the doldrums, its shinning ex-colony is doing worse.
The headline claims even our middle income families cannot secure food, yet the article cites zero evidence on how they came to this conclusion. There is a short quote from a jobless Singaporean family moaning about food & inflation, but by definition this no income family cannot be "middle income".
It throws in some interviews with NGOs reporting increases in food assistance, fine but how does this prove middle income people cannot secure food? In fact towards the end the article cites a study and admits that only 10.4% of Singaporean households experience food insecurity. Bottom 10.4% is classified as low income / SES by any economic and social model and is a definitely not "middle income" either.
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