We’re all in it together!

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Wasn’t that the slogan thought up by Cameron and Osborne?

A snappy little slogan too! It said we all had to tighten our belts because the country could not afford to pay everyone what they were being paid. We were living beyond our means.

This year George Osborne’s income has been in excess of £2,000,000 (£165,000 from Blackrock, approaching £2,000,000 from lectures, £85,000 for being an MP and undisclosed amount from being appointed editor of the Evening Standard.

David Cameron’s earning are not available but I know he is converting a shed in order to write his memoires – I wonder how much for?

So while nurses have to use food banks and all public sector workers have had pay and pensions slashed, the superrich have doubled their income and the politicians are creaming it in.

We’re all in it together? Well most of us are in the poo together!

What is the worst crime?

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So what is the worst crime?

Breaking into a shop and stealing £500 from the till?

Breaking into someone’s house and stealing precious jewelry worth thousands?

Robbing someone at knifepoint and stealing £100?

Hacking someone’s bank details and stealing £20,000 of savings?

Or perhaps being an ex-chancellor and selling information to a financial firm so that they can find ways to avoid paying millions? (i.e.. George Osborne selling information for £165,000 a year to Blackrock so that they can avoid paying millions of pounds to the British economy – money that should be going to the NHS, Schools and Social Care).

Pension funds – Short-term gain – long-term misery – a bribe? A temporary fix?

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George Osborne's budget box

What a stupid policy.

Let us give everyone access to their pension funds. They’ll love us for it.

Now, while a percentage of the population is able to look ahead and invest their money wisely to ensure their funds cover their needs in old age, and could probably do a better job of it than the pension fund investors, most are either too stupid or lacking in knowledge to do so.

a.

‘Oh look – we can get our hands on thousands of pounds. What shall we do with it?’

‘Shall we invest it wisely or buy a new car?’

‘Oh our car is now old and worthless. Oh. I am old and have no job. Where is the money coming from to keep me now that I’ve spent it all? I know. The taxpayers will have to fork out!’

b.

‘There’s all this money locked up in pension funds. The country is in need. We’ll unlock it. Give it to the masses. They’ll buy lots of new cars and spend it. It’ll stimulate the economy. That’ll help disguise the deficit and make things look good. They’ll love it. They’ll vote for us. Win Win.’

‘What happens when they’ve spent it and have nothing to live off? It’ll cost us a lot more further down the line and all those people who spent their pensions on tat will be buggered.’

‘Some other chancellor will be in office then! Some other government will have to sort out the mess. Who cares.’