I have been travelling for quite a while but have now returned to the UK - Oh What an unbridalled joy it is to be back.
I had completely forgotten what a band of wankers we have as a Government.
My first piece of news on returning was delivered by some miserable cadaverous Scot who said without a hint of irony that inflation in the UK is 2.1%. I then filled up my vehicle with diesel the price of which had increased by 15% since December 2007. next task fill up the heating oil tank, price is up 20% since last Spring, OK well lets open the post, Council Tax bill " only " increased by 5%. Right get on-line to Ocado and get some food, some items, quite a lot of them in fact, up an average of 8% Did that guy say 2.1% !! wonder what world he lives in ? ah its the one where you live on the expenses that you fabricate and then hide the details of. In the real World thats at best being economic with the truth but most people would describe it as boardering on theft or fraud.
But do our Government feel any shame at their dirty little practices have been exposed - No - not a bit of it.
Next piece of news is that the Government is going to the High Court to prevent the details of the MP's expenses abuse being made public. If ever there was a single news item that encapsulated the gulf that now exists between the average Brit and Village Westminster it is this.
All I could think of was the US hotelier who when jailed for massive tax evasion said "only the little people pay tax" So its now OK for MP's to steal as well as lie.
It is my experience that when ever a politician wants to get away with something thats a bit suspect they play "The Security Card" that universal get out of jail free card that enables all their grubby little secrets to be buried away so that the poor sops, you and me, that have to pay for it all cannot see whats going on.
Turn on the radio and the FSA, who remember have very well paid cushy little numbers "regulating" the Financial industry, put out a report that lists a littany of fundamental failures on its part that have resulted in the UK tax payer having to stump up £100 billion to prop up Northern Rock - yep the message was well we were completely incompetant but hey we will learn from this and lets move on.
No resignations, No sackings not even an apology.
This huge exposure for all of the UK population was totally avoidable.
So I had a trawl around at some published figues, there is a legal requiremment for Governments to publish things like money supply statistics - but like all bureaucrats they make a good job of hiding them but I did eventually get my hands on the Bank of Englands money supply figures.
now I hear you asking so what - well as Zimbabwe is proving expand the money supply and you create a broadly equal rate of inflation, in their case a plane load of German printed money being delivered every week equals a huge increase in the money supply equals inflation at a mind numbing rate of 100,000%, thats prices going up by 273 times a day.
The Bank of England figures show very clearly that Brown & Co have been printing money at the rate of around 14% a year for the last 4 or 5 years - which is now of course creating a level of inflation that most normal Brits would recognise from their daily/weekly expenditure of around 12% rather than the nonsense figure put out by the Government
Not rocket science, just basic economics
The real puzzle for me is why the hell have the Brits not risen up and raised hell about the the way they are being treated.