Jack, politicians irrespective of party once elected have never given a hoot about "ordinary" people, or has that fact escaped your notice, certainly hasn't escaped mine.

Oh and this mess we are currently in, well we've been here before and the same system gets us out of the mess, unlike the systems employed to fuel the economies of the former Soviet Block. "Our" system can take an occasional hammering and survive, as it will this time exactly as it has done before.