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  Barry, dear Barry. I sometimes think that you have a ring-and-string in the middle of your back. All too often when the ring is pulled out pops one of only three or four stock phrases.
  'massive unemployment' is not a thing for any future. It is in the here and now.
  The country's present plight is often spoken of in terms of a family-budget yet the sole solution enacted on the macro scale is to cut expenditure and chatter-on about improving income. In the real world, at the family level, much would also be being done to up the income. 'Realising' the assets would be a part of that too.
  While the last Government was for spending there were many who were on the 'grab', one way or another.
  We can see that an additional tax on the public sector can be enacted with little of a to-do.
  But!
  The over-generous PFI contracts seem sacrosanct. Vastly inflated wage hikes too are never addressed, yet these will have a knock-on effect on into the pension provision of those concerned.
  
  To threaten punishment anew while meting-out that same punishment 'smacks' of that part of Victorian values that gave Dickens so much to write about.
  
  Parliament is clearly no more than a busted-flush. We are all 'bust' and they should all be flushed.

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