Can this Tory-led coalition get any worse?

I look at families across Norwich and Norfolk not even trying to do more, but just to stay afloat, with an awful lot less.

Then I read the headline stories from some of last week’s national dailies.

Now I understand what Crazy Dave means by, ‘We’re all in this together.’

The headlines speak volumes:

The Daily Mail: Fury as Cameron’s families tsar gets £8.6m in ONE YEAR

The woman appointed by David Cameron to get problem families back into work pocketed £8.6million last year – most of it from the taxpayer. The payout is up 300 per cent on the year before even though MPs say the company’s record on job schemes is ‘abysmal’.

The Telegraph: Tax breaks for hiring a cleaner could save middle class thousands

Families could be given tax breaks for hiring cleaners and cooks to help with household chores, under a scheme to be considered by ministers.

The Daily Express: Elderly ‘should go to work and downsize their homes’

The elderly should go back to work to combat loneliness, says one of David Cameron’s key advisers. And he also encouraged pensioners to downsize their homes to help ease the housing shortage for young families.

Now I understand what Crazy Dave means by, ‘We’re all in this together.’

If you are an older resident of Britain fallen on hard times through job loss or a retirement fund that has been robbed by the bankers you need to sell your home at a knockdown price and in so doing sell yourself into penury. Cap in hand you go to the abysmally performing A4e a quick course in forelock tugging and knowing your place in Tory Britain in order to raise the ‘happiness levels’ of A4e Tsar Emma Harrison thus justifying her £8.6million of public largess and probably earning her a peerage making this her jubilee year. In return she’ll find you a job with the hard pressed toffs and upper middle classes who will receive the massive tax breaks they really deserve in order to complete the employment cycle by taking on a new wave of gardeners, maids, nannies, cooks and cleaners… at below the minimum wage of course.

We mustn’t forget the hordes of teens and twenteens who have no hope of securing a job. They will provide the nouveau ragamuffin class doing their best to provide Dickensian street colour and lots of photo opportunities for the tide of tourists from China. This will then restore the ‘natural balance.’

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