You can see what they think of us I believe when they cry out 'It's affecting my health' or 'I want to spend more time with my family'. Do you know that's what I, and I suspect so many others have been saying for years. They just don't see, nor know how we all suffer in just the same way. When you've left school, gone to Uni, taken a year or so travelling and then gone into politics, how the hell do you know how MOST people live? How the hell do they believe that 'giving' a pensioner another £1 per week will make him/her grateful? Or taking a penny off the income tax is a 'splendid' way make people happy? They just don't get it.
Until we are governed by concensus politics (not first past the post), we will get what we deserve.
Our masters, for that's exactly what they are, are not changing now, nor will they. They'll flannel, waffle and tinker, but woe betide anything that may ACTUALLY clean up our system. That's going to be a complete No No - just wait and see. I really do hope I'm wrong, but I sure as hell ain't holding my breath.
John Barden