The government are taking more out of our hard earned and already pitiful wages than at any time since the height of Tory belligerence in 1991, says a story in the Sunday Telegraph.
The proportion of household income taken in tax rose from 34pc to 34.6pc in the first quarter of this year – the highest level since Spring 1991.
Calculations by Capital Economics, based on figures from the Office of National Statistics, show that if you earn about £23,800 the taxman now takes £8,222 a year direct taxes.
And what are they doing with our money?
We have two stupid, profligate overseas adventures in the Arab world that are costing us dear in people, money and international goodwill.
The technology and infrastructure of surveillance has been extended nationally to an unprecendented and truly Orwellian degree.
Politicians themselves squirm in sleaze and corruption scandals while the rest of us struggle to continue our wretched, exploited and numb lives.
No matter what party is in power all this will continue. Elections offer no choice. No wonder no one votes.
