food and energy! who needs them?

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in the uk we have something called the monetary policy committee, whose job it is to meet an inflation target of 2%, by controlling interest rates. at the momeny they want to keep interest rates low because of poor growth figures, but as a result inflation is nearly 5%, and way above the target they have been set. so clever people that they are,they justify this by saying there is a measure called "core inflation",which is a lower figure of around 3%,at the moment. but the reason it is lower is because it leaves out volatile items like food and energy costs, such as gas and electricity. and then they say inflation isn't so bad. but its just so ridiculous, as food and energy are absolutely essential to our very existence, how can they claim to be measuring "core" inflation by taking out things that are so important. i'm sorry its such a boring subject, but its just so absurd, i would welcome some reassurance from mylotters that it is not the lunatics running the asylum, but it really does feel like it at the moment.