Wednesday, 23 June 2010

All in the same boat?

New austerity measures for the long suffering"ordinary" folk,the new Tory/Tory alliance have decided that we are to suffer for the sins of the Yankee/Limey bankers who created the problems we are now enduring,allegedly we are all in it together except the rich of course,it seems Phil the Greek,and his missus Lizzie the German, will now have their finances scrutinised but of course nothing will be done to reduce their standard of living.
20% vat is to be introduced , if you add 20% on a bill for a fiver it makes it £6.unless my maths are crap,which if you are on a low income is quite a lot,but if you are rich, or on a high income not so much of a penance, so we are not ALL suffering equally are we?
Suffering across the board comes today starting at 3pm greenwich meantime when it's"Here we go again"with the England team,hopefully it will be the real England team this time,maybe even getting a favourable comment from across the Atlantic from those with a new allegiance and nationality.
The good old French were in disarray last night against South Africa,but the French people are not shy at standing up against their government or football managers if they sense an injustice,unlike us English who are much slower to react,in my many car journeys across La Belle France in years past, en route(bit of french there) to Italy I have been made welcome by the French and so am quite fond of them as a nation ,and they make good wine which is another thing in their favour.

1 comment:

Mike Saif said...

20% Vat is absolutely ridiculous. But people keep voting these politicians in and it doesn't really matter that much whether it is Tories or Labour in power, they are all crooked. Sooner or later people will figure it out and not vote for them. Maybe it will take 50% VAT before they do though?