Having your cake...
Remember those Tory MPs who warned for decades about the nanny state, who refused to protect the poor from loan sharks or a bad diet because “people know best” and “don’t need lecturing”? Remember that Liz Truss banned a TV campaign to advise on cutting down fuel bills this winter while still keeping warm because it was not the state’s job to lecture people?
These are the same type of MPs who now insist that fire fighters and nurses are well paid, don’t need food banks, and like the rest of the poor must be feckless, lazy, wasteful and can easily live on their wages.
They then lecture us all on cheap recipes, money saving tips and sound finance. Having apparently decided that patronising the poor is now a social good.
Coming from people who earn more than twice average earnings (just in their day jobs) with hundreds of thousands extra in expenses and a massively subsidised series of bars and restaurants, this would be rich at the the best of times.
Now it makes “let them eat cake” look like the kind of advise Martin Lewis hands out or the title of a leaflet from the CAB.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media