TIME TO PROTEST WHILE WE ARE STILL ALLOWED TO SPEAK

Amongst all the news this morning,most of it bad a couple of items seemed to connect themselves in my mind and the more I thought about what I had heard the more angry I became.

Firstly another major energy supplier has announced rises in fuel prices about the rate of inflation, Now it must be said that we are becoming well used to this annual massive hike in energy costs at the start of every winter,equally we are used to the minuscule lowering of those costs in summer time when no one uses their heating.

Almost the next item contained the result of yet another crackpot survey which had discovered that even in families where the householders work full time ,they do not earn enough to keep themselves and their children above the poverty line. These people,the politician explained were not those(scroungers...his word not mind) who are on benefits,but people in employment ,people who do the right thing .His words again.

Shock, horror. What could be the cause of this peculiar circumstance,are we not told almost hourly by our elected leaders that work is the way out of poverty? With millions of working people unable to pay their bills it begins to look as if this much chanted mantra is incorrect!

Before I address the connection between these two items of news I should like to say this. Since when did losing your job in a time of unprecedented financial difficulty automatically turn a decent honest man,or woman in to a scrounger,a parasite upon society, a cheat. This attitude to the unemployed is a disgrace to our nation. The unemployed ,the elderly(who also got a bashing today) and the disabled are not the cause of our present troubles, they are the victims.

Those in work which pays a decent living wage should thank the Gods for their good fortune instead of repeating this seditious politicians cant!

Back now to the point,and it is simply this. As long as the cost of living is allowed to rise ,and as long as pay is either frozen or is well below the rate of inflation people will become poorer every year.

Excuse me folks but I am certain that it does not take any kind of enquiry to unearth this very obvious problem.

If Governments can enforce the rate of pay increases they should also be able to enforce a balance in the rising cost of living by refusing to sanction such massive price rises across the board.

Of course they will twitter on about that being bad for the economy, to this I say, surely having people working hard and being unable to pay their bills let alone spend money on consumer goods is much worse for the economy, and I ask, do the think that we are stupid?

Robbing one element of our increasingly poor society to give a few extra pounds to another is not the answer . The answer is a strong government with the will,the wit and the courage to once and for all put a stop to these price increases and give us a chance to at least break even at the end of the week.

I am aware that these giant corporations hold a gun to our heads by saying that they will pull out of our country if we cut of their supply of perks and stop their pay increases. Banks and energy providers are not the only ones to use this method of negotiation, it is rife in our time and it is unconscionable.

Matters in the Unites States are in such a mess that there is a small consolation in the fact that at least our government has not engaged in such irresponsible behaviour.......yet......and I do stress yet! President versus Congress, arguing over trifle while the national debt runs at $ 17,000,000,000,000 ( I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH NOUGHTS) and ordinary hard-working Americans are expected to live on fresh air.......this is a symptom of the same disease we suffer in the U.K, Politics before people, and to hell with the consequences.

Remember back in the days of Maggie, so many people refused to pay the unfair pole tax that the courts could not cope  and the tax was scraped. I am guessing that if everyone refused to pay their winter fuel bill it would concentrate the greedy minds of the power providers pretty damn quick.

After all they could not disconnect every ones gas and electricity, they cannot take everyone to court for none payment of our fuel bills. Believe me they cannot afford to hold out against a protest on that scale,they need the money. So how about it, how about a great big boycott of our winter fuel bills. Lets give the hard hearted skin flints the same Merry Christmas they want for us. I'm game if you are!