What really hacks me off is that the 'party of the people' - you know the one I mean - does not seem to possess a single MP prepared to stick a head above the parapet and make noises about the horrors of inflation for ordinary people's lives, perhaps explained by the fact that their own government is largely responsible for so very much of it. Stealth taxes on top of taxes; with petrol having taxes horrifyingly having to be paid on top of taxes!(Well, with the Tories and Lib Dems and especially, the Greens, you almost expect it, of course.)
In other words, the present crop of politicians is quite happy to see almost everybody getting poorer.
Just how many people have had pay increases in recent years? - Those who have, have not seen these keep anywhere near the fictitious rate of inflation and certainly nobody anywhere near the real one.
That is one thing. Quite another is that, in this present serious situation, the government wants to impose price rises in so many areas, as often as not to fund their madcap quixoticism.
They are happy to add to people's burdens and, non-driver Brown's attitude to rising petrol prices, is madness. Inflation is fuelled, if you'll pardon the word play. He cannot grasp that, cars for the majority in this farflung modern world are not an optional luxury - or perhaps he does!
As with so many other things, there is an excuse. With cars it is that he is pretending to display 'green credentials'.
Welfare benefits are eating taxes out of the pockets of the ever-dwindling band of people who actually work for a living. I for one do not mind terror-supporting immigrants drawing £25k a year - it would be considered racist to think otherwise.
And the real trouble is that all of this was happening before the collapse of the banks.
