Feudalism

The Daily Mail along with uSwitch maintain a shopping basket using which they can compare prices. Despite the lies perpetrated by Government statistics, this shopping basket shows that over the last 13 months the cost of living for all of us serfs (as opposed to the people in Government who just live off us) has risen by 19.1% for food and drink, 16% for alcohol, 25.5% for diesel, 5.7% for car insurance, and 4.4% for rail tickets. Mortgages have gone up by 7.1%, Gas and Electricity by over 12% each, Council Tax by 4%... and so the litany goes on.

The Gorse Fox caught a few minutes of a programme on the Middle Ages. It explained that in the worst cases serfs had to work up to 50 days per year for their land owner in return for being allowed to live on and farm his land - but that twice a year the land owner would have to provide a feast for all of these people. (Oh yes, and they had 80 Holy Days each year).

According to the calculations for 2008 by the Adam Smith institute - National Tax Freedom Day is June 2nd... the 154th day of the year. The Gorse Fox is just trying to remember the last time the Chancellor laid on a feast for us all?

Now stop reading this, and get back to work - the Chancellor is waiting,