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2012 the Bank of England admitted that it's Quantitative Easing policy has benefitted the richest most (specifically the richest 5%), yet it continued doing it in years ahead, and certainly didn't withdraw the QE it had pumped in since 2008. It's also widely accepted that QE and low interest rates have fuelled housing and other asset/market bubbles to the point that they make up an unhealthily large proportion of our economy, and driven a reluctance from the BoE, and other western equivalents like the ECB and The Fed, to bring rates back to what was once deemed normal levels and get rid of everything they "printed". Now whether or not this has made people below a certain level poorer can be debated plenty, but this behaviour from Central Banks has no precedent in history going back over a century and has certainly deepened inequality through inflating richer asset holder's wealth much faster than groups below them. At least we in the UK avoided negative rates to be fair, but 0.1-0.75% is bad enough.
I would also not be surprised if the behaviour of Central Banks helped result in things like Brexit and Trump, and other so-called populist movements elsewhere. Whether one agrees with these or not, these movements would not have got anywhere if people believed that politicians before them were delivering for them, and to deliver usually means to improve standards of living.
I think there certainly is more the Government and Bank of England can and should be doing, even if they can't make things as good as they may have been say pre-covid. But a lot of what's driving inflation now could have been prevented or mitigated by actions/long term political strategies in the last 10-15 years (e.g. doing a lot of what we're doing to Russia now in 2014, and not throwing out previous pandemic strategies in favour of copying a police state's methods of pandemic "management"), that the current Governing party has overseen most of, and while the Bank Governor hasn't always been the same, they all could have done more.