English Opinion

We are in the midst of the credit crunch here in the UK and it seems that more and more people are being put out of work every single day through no fault of their own. Today it was announced that Corus, a premier steelmaker here, was to cut 2,500 jobs soon, thus forcing more people out of work. The rate of repossession of homes stands at one family every 10 minutes now and that may well get worse as we head deeper into recession.

In a few hours, we will all face another Monday. Most of us will get up as normal and go to work with the fear that we will be told we are no longer needed when we get there. Some will wonder how they are going to pay the bills on the minimum wage jobs they have had to take following the loss of their £20,000 plus a week job. Some may even wonder how far they can make the petrol stretch in their cars given that they haven’t got enough money to fill up the tank.

Gordon Brown and his Labour government are our “public servants”. We are counting on them to get us out of the mess that they and a few greedy bankers have gotten us into. We elected them to do what is right by us and apparently they are… by getting us into hefty debt and squandering our money on themselves.

This week may well be the week that we can read all about what our hard earned cash goes on when they claim expenses. Millions of our pounds every year are used to pay family members a wage that they do not work for, for furniture for their second homes, for expensive cars and luxurious hotels. The list could go on.

So spare a thought for MPs when you hear to work this Monday morning people! After all, the government’s privacy is about to be compromised and the British public is too stupid to understand why the public servants need second homes when they don’t even have one. Neither can we understand their cushy lifestyles when we’re making every penny do the work of two. Spare a thought for their corrupt ways when you are told that you are no longer needed because they will never be out of a job.

These are the people that are supposed to serve us but the only people that they serve these days are themselves. It makes me sick.

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