So who do we vote for when the good times are over and won’t ever come back?
Most of us don’t have party political allegiances. The shadows cast by the worst decisions of previous and current Prime Ministers tend to inform our decisions at the ballot box, and because some pretty appalling policies have been inflicted on us down the years by both Labour and the Conservatives, we spend a lot of our time at a crossroads of opinion subject to movement caused by the vagaries of the media as much as by our own experiences and anything the latest leaders do or say.
tags: Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, database state, David Cameron, elections, environment, food crisis, free market, global warming, Gordon Brown, ID cards, Labour, Liberal Democrats, politics, sustainability, Tony BlairWhen banks stop lending and the poor say no more
Well, as expected my bank wrote back in response to my email with a big fat fuck-off. I have to wait until the end of the court case to determine whether their charges are reasonable or not before I get a penny of my disability benefits back from them.
tags: banking charges, banking executives, banks, capitalism, credit crunch, estate agents, free market, free trade, globalisation, Great Depression, lending, mortgages, poor, recession, self-sufficiency, sub-prime
