by Peter Watt
People are suffering out there. Families’ finances are under pressure as prices rise while their incomes remain static. The numbers who are unemployed keeps rising and the fear of losing your job is very real for many more.
It manifests itself in small ways for many families, perhaps the occasional meal out has stopped. Or the much loved and deserved annual holiday has been downgraded or cancelled. The car costs more to fill up and that credit card bill suddenly seems a real worry as money runs out sooner in the month than it did. The news is full of rumblings of worse to come as the dark clouds of possible Euro meltdown gather. It all adds to up to a great deal of worry that is being quietly borne in millions of homes across the country.
People don’t expect to be told “it will all be alright” by their politicians. And even if politicians did say that they wouldn’t be believed anyway. But they have every right to expect that politicians are working tirelessly for them and on their behalf.
So imagine how you must have felt this week as you realised that there was still a couple of weeks to go until pay-day and the kids needed new shoes or the tax on the car was due. And then you flicked on the news and saw that once again the entire political class appeared to have its collective head stuck up its own arse once again!
