Let me append a bulleted list of some simple facts.
1) The government continues to cut back on welfare
expenditure, making it even more difficult for the elderly, the incapacitated
and the unemployed to get by even at subsistence level. The winter fuel
allowance paid to the elderly, for example, has been reduced by 20%.
2) The cost of fundamental items such as food, heating and
private sector rents has increased way above inflation. This matters little to
the rich, since they have plenty of slack to take up, but it’s devastating to
the poor who have nothing left to cut.
3) The salaries and bonuses paid to the directors of the
FTSE top 100 companies have gone up by 50% in the last year. Other statistics
show that the rich have generally been getting richer at a rate above the level
of inflation.
4) Mr Cameron says ‘we’re all in this together.’ Mr Cameron
is a rich man.
5) Those who take to the streets to protest against
corporate greed are deemed ‘irresponsible’ by the Establishment.
That’ll do.
I was supposed to be writing about bats, trees and cocker
spaniels, wasn’t I? Later, maybe. I haven’t recovered from the operation I
referred to yet.
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