What "spin", lev? You haven't drawn our attention to anything that any of us were not perfectly aware of already, as to cost, attitudes, etc. It's just that some don't interpret them identically to you or regard them as so self-evidently abusive of and contrary to the commonweal as you appear to ~~ as a result, some might think, of believing everything you read in your Grauniad [a journal, I would add just for the record, to whose arts and features pages I was a regular contributor for upwards of ¼-century]. There is no 'spin' involved. It's just that we don't all draw the same conclusions from the known facts as you do; with ∴ no such adverse effects on the comfortable arrangement of our undergarments, whatever may be their colours or decorative features! And what's wrong, in a free society, with some of us differing in our views of certain aspects of societal organisation, whatever daily journal we might favour? Nobody's denying you the right to your opinion on the matter. Why can you & some others on your side of the question not afford a reciprocal courtesy without adopting such a crushing and unmannerly tone?

~M~