It is said the UK is no longer in recession and is actually one best recovering economies, but we are still running at a deficit. Each year the actual debt of the UK gets bigger and it is now at 1.5 trillion GBP. Over the last parliament it actually doubled. It was the Torys who screamed and shouted the previous Labour party had taken the country into a recession, however they purposely did not mention there was a world recession at the time. As a voting UK tax payer it seems to me there must be a time when the debt gets called in. There has to be a moment when the bailiffs come knocking at the door. We are importing and using more in goods from abroad than we are able to produce. This also does not make sense. The Tories say there are more people in work than there ever has been, if this is the case surely productivity would be higher than it ever has been? Yet it is not. So clearly the UK is more inefficient than any other country, it is unable to hold its own and does not have a manufacturing industry to compete with the rest of the world. Certainly not anything like the German's who remarkably have gone from strength to strength since the last world war. The UK has a lot of capital and it is in property. Here because properties are so scared their values have skyrocketed, investors around the world are finding bank are unable to give them a decent return for their dollar, so the rich ones buy properties in London. Properties which over the last year have shown capital grown in the double digits. What fires this growth is there are not enough properties to home the people of the UK so they are at a premium. The worst part of this is that successive governments have not addressed the issue and homes are not being built fast enough and certainly not at the numbers required. We need at least 200,000 new properties a year for the next 5 years to support our ever growing population. Take a boat ride up or down the Thames and you will see empty flats easily recognised at night because they are the ones without light. They are the ones who have been bought by overseas investors. In the mean time people who cant afford their rents because of their low pay and high rent apply for benefits. Consequently in work benefits have significantly increased. When governments say they are going to reduce the Welfare Benefits bill this must also mean reducing the money ordinary working folk need in order to live. There is something terribly wrong about this, and terribly wrong politicians have not done enough to combat it.
No doubt though as the days tick over and the chance comes for the electorate to sack their MP we get to see more dastardly behaviour. There are many MPs who do not deserve to be in parliament for they no longer represent the people they should. Michael Fallon mate, your one of them.
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