One hand giveth, the other taketh away
Yesterday’s announcement from the government of a £910m package of measures aimed at helping people with soaring gas and electricity bills was deeply disappointing and deceptive. The cash spree is paraded as being brought about through the willing collaboration of the energy companies. Well of course they wanted to help, because they read the news same as anyone and are well aware of the growing clamour for their obscene profits to be forcefully removed and redirected by the government to the estimated quarter of the population about to fall into fuel poverty.
tags: big business, Conservatives, electricity, energy bills, fossil fuels, gas, Labour, politicsThe times we try to live in: a wide-ranging rant (but don’t worry, there’s humour in there as well)
I give in to the torrential and near-continual rainfall this summer. I give in to the inevitable liquifying of my brain owing to the bickering between the only two parties we ever see elected to government, both of them mediocre headline-chasers, uninspiring and with memberships hungry for power for power’s sake, keen to bring in yet more control freak policies, and to fuck over those least capable of withstanding being fucked over by anyone. I give in to the newspapers, TV and radio that have collectively decided it’s time for a Second Great Depression because it promises great opportunities for photographers to snap starving waifs in the city centre of Bradford (which, we’ve been told, by a misnamed think tank, should be emptied of human life as quickly as possible, with the refugees rehomed by uncharacteristically generous and practical-minded Oxford and Cambridge dons).
tags: Africa, anger, chavs, China, Conservatives, credit cards, debt, depression, estate agents, Georgia, global warming, inflation, Labour, mortgages, Olympics, opinion polls, politics, rain, rant, recession, Russia, SAD
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