It must be lovely to dish off to a country retreat or dine in the best of places courtesy of the state.I’, often wondering whether our biggest scroungers are MP’s what with all these freebies. ?

Even better to have a choice of homes to live in when others in Britain can’t afford to buy there home.

Of late Gordon Brown backed out of awarding a massive one hundred pounds to low income families as a one off payment towards the recently hiked gas and electricity charges. Woh that’s going to solve the problem then. No it isn’t.

Well surely that’s a little bit of a leg up from nothing at all. Mmm debateable whether it is election tactics. Lets give these poor people a bribe and maybe they’ll vote us in again. In some ways I’m pleased he didn’t pass it, Yes astounding isn’t it that I should say that.

My reasoning of course is that it would be better to increase benefits properly so that people could afford to pay there bills or to at least make it a regular thing not just a one off for votes or popularity.

The domestic fuel industry bosses of course now have an attitude ” let them eat cake” sounds appropriate or we have a scheme to reduce bills. Gosh this doesn’t mean they want to cut you off. But the discount scheme does cut it. Why because once you register you pay more per unit in the first place than other domestic users, a bit like the old meter system.. if you opted for it you paid more for less.

By the way I am not against the notion of people working for benefits, I do think people should take some pride in work, but what I am saying is that the benefits need to keep in touch with the real costs of living.

I also think we have serious problems with housing, There is not enough social housing. Many years ago when there was a massive council sale sell off, houses weren’t built to replace the stock. Instead land was sold for private development, private house purchases. Could local councils not have spent on some house building schemes for social housing use. Mmm no they’d rather sell public buildings for commercial profit. Such as local librairies and swimming pools.

So I suppose you could say these issues are local and yes indeed they are, but they aren’t just applicabe to one area of Britain this is now widespread, its headline news.

Because its headline news Gordon Brown and the labour party need to act on it.

Hence I believe when they don’t or they come up with cavalier schemes and then withraw them, i suppose it means they are trying to think these issues through but the unfortunate thing is they aren’t doing so quick enough and because of there own priviledged background they are far removed from reality.

My vote is that they have lost touch with reality. What’s yours?