government policies

First the government wanted us to stop smoking, then they wanted us to stop using our cars, then they decided to stop us drinking and their usual solution of putting up the prices came into action, now with six pubs a day closing, and the car industry in dire straights they have realised just how much revenue they gain through these so called unnecessary vices of ours. The job losses in this country, and capital loss for the government would be tremendous if the nation decided to give up all these things at once.
Having now realised how tragic it would be they are now pouring money into the car trade so, it is only a matter of time until they go back on their word again, and allow cheap drink to save the British pub, although I don't think the smokers have a chance as we all know the revenue they bring in. Remembering the old saying on the capstan packet "let capstan take the strain" I fear the stress we are going through now, might have us all looking for something to relieve the strain in the not too distant future, swelling their coffers either way.
This bad spell of weather has shown how much has to be done before we can rely on public transport.

solve a problem........cash for the coffers.

Once again the majority are going to suffer, thanks to the mindless minority because the only answer our politicians can come up with when a problem arises is, hike more money on to it, making sure they benefit out of it rather than solve the matter.
Everything from global warming to the yob culture on our streets is taken care of by increasing prices on fuel (which bumps up the cost of everything else) to tobacco and drink. Who do they think they are kidding, and if they are so naive as to think our culture is going to change by hiking up prices then their position in government should be looked at. The drink problems of our youths who stand on street corners is nothing new but it is getting worse, it is thanks to E.U. rules that makes their parents afraid to punish them in any way for fear of reprisals. Ever since the E.U. stepped in with their ridiculous ruling on punishments we have become an almost lawless society with criminals and crimes running rings round the courts, as at every cut and turn they have a law to protect THEM instead of the law protecting the victims and the peace loving citizen of this country who, are in the majority.

pensions

The whole idea of work pensions is to give you a little bit extra to survive on during your retirement years but unless you have a substantial pension like a government minister or some other job with an over inflated rate the benefits are nullified by the crippling taxes of this country added to by the absence of other advantages that are disallowed because our meagre pension takes us just over the qualifying level to warrant these benefits we contributed to all our working life.The works pension that was supposed to benefit us in our old age becomes more of a hindrance at times rather than serve the purpose it was meant to.
Britain has the poorest old age pensions in the developed world and most of our pensioners struggle to survive each week but their plight is only mentioned by politicians when an election is drawing near then, the promises made are put on the back burner again. We paid tax on the money before it went into the pension fund, we pay tax on the money we get out of the pension fund and to top it all Gordon Brown robbed the pension funds by taxing them on interest gathered putting them all in jeopardy of going broke. If the pension funds had been left the way they were before Gordon Brown plundered them the credit crunch and fall in the index would not have had such a devastating effect on them and the restructuring of them would not have been needed. People seem to have forgotten that the pension funds were going along quite nicely until Brown decimated them and its only since then that they are all in dire straights. By the time they retire THEY have already feathered their nests by one devious scheme after the other (with our contributions) and on top of that they still receive a ridiculous pension so they have no need to worry, and do not really care about the poverty of our struggling pensioners, THAT is plain to see when we come out the poorest pensioners in the developed world.