They're laughing at us

RECENTLY the conspicuously wealthy have been out in force telling us that we must endure hardship, feel the 'pain' of cuts, be stigmatised and accused of a 'lifestyle choice' over benefits and then, with real earnings in long-term decline, telling us they are going to 'make work pay'.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Oct 2010, 10:00 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 21:24 BST

A few statistics may help here: 0.6 per cent of the population owns 69 per cent of the land; just 103 people own 30 per cent of the country; the median wage is £21,000 a year, and if you earn more than £40,000 pa you are in the richest 10 per cent - although still a long way below the elite class.

Yes, I am referring to the Tory party conference, though in the interest of self-preservation they are trying to disguise it as a national conference. They take us for fools.

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And so it goes on. Nothing about making work pay, or about benefits for the wealthy. It’s as if the MPs’ expenses scandal didn’t exist, or the tax dodgers and cheats who cost the country £100 billion a year.

There are more millionaires than women in the Coalition cabinet. Why are the wealthy so keen to impress upon us the virtue - indeed, the necessity - of thrift and privation?

And why are they so airy-fairy when it comes to telling us where all those jobs they think we should take are to come from?

The real middle class is already being clobbered by a government which had decided right from the start that we should pay back the banks. There is nothing “fair” in any of this.

Yes, they are laughing at us. They take us for fools.

STEPHEN JACKSON

Second Avenue

Bexhill-on-Sea

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