Medacious Government

The Gorse Fox has been reflecting on the local elections, and the inept Gordon Brown's statement that he will learn from this. The Gorse Fox respectfully suggests that you do not hold your breath.

Why? Because he's spent the last 10 years making you poorer, and trying to control your life. The Gorse Fox asks that you consider:

• The inflation rate - which we are told is currently 3.8% - but that does not include council tax, motor fuel, or central taxation. GF has seen diesel rise from £1.02 per litre to £1.21 per litre in under 4 months.... and remember most of that is tax.
• The standard of living - which we are told has improved - but that is at the cost of people getting into debt to maintain the lifestyle they had been used to; or working longer and longer hours, or working multiple jobs.
• Transport - which we were promised would be integrated - but actually is utterly disarticulated, and now they are proposing to build new towns in areas with no local jobs, and no transport infrastructure to allow people to get to work other than driving (but hey! that ups the tax revenue).
  
• Crime - which we were told they would be tough on - well that's true if you are a motorist (you are almost certainly a criminal by now), or if you drop a bit of sausage roll in the street while feeding you child, or if you defend yourself against attack.
• Probity in Government - the Gorse Fox is almost speechless - fortunately books and blogs have been written that reveal how this crowd have stitched us up. The most mendacious and damaging of them all was Gordon Brown - destroying peoples pensions and breaking the trust between people and Government; and of course writing lots of very damaging small print that was never revealed during his budget speeches, but snuck in to make you poorer.