Get your priorities right
Real pay is down by 3% in a year, that is a staggering statistic. It means that on average every single person in the country has taken a huge pay cut as inflation has out stripped increases in pay.
But that is just the average, in business and finance the gap is much smaller and in construction too as the sector struggles to find skilled workers. Therefore the hit to many other workers in other sectors is even larger.
We are seeing more and more people fall into poverty as a result. With housing costs, energy prices and food all soaring in price it is the poorest who spend most on such items who are suffering most. Food banks are a sign of failure not a caring society.
Meanwhile the government is saving up the money for a tax cut on inheritance tax. That will help the richest, is already extremely generous to those with property wealth and creates a far less equal society.
But it does win the votes of the elderly, there is that
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media