its not actually a sense of entitlement. its more to with the fact that my parents physically starved as children in the 1920's and 30's. THey fought a war. made a contract with a post war government, and paid huge taxes on tiny wages all their lives, which resulted in lifetimes of poverty - poverty of hope, poverty of ambition for their children.

I've seen tory and labour governments tear up the agreements they made, dishonour the promises made - steal as much as they could of the pittances they had managed to save.

I just wonder where and when the reward comes for the basic decency of the English people.

They didn't fish their seas to extinction like the Spanish. They didn't award themselves the right to own sub machine guns. THey reformed and liberalised the legal system and purged gory executions and legitimised previously illegal sexual practices. They financed with the aforessaid taxes a NHS and social security service, which is pillaged and exploited, and the only regrets of the party who created seems to be that we don't throw it open to the whole world.

perhaps our mistake was not to be as rapacious, reactionary and greedy as the top layer of our society.