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My new set up. More room in the front room and easier to do the thing that is the thing that I do!
Austerity and Charity If you live in the United Kingdom in 2013 you will just be starting to understand ‘Austerity’. It’s a scary word because what Austerity means is that the politicians have run out of ideas. Well what I mean is, they’ve run out of sensible ideas. I mean they’ll spend 84 billion on Trident when it’s pretty clear we no longer have the means to maintain the submarines that are supposed to deliver it and we don’t really want to start a nuclear war. They’ll spend hundreds of millions on failed IT system after failed IT system to ‘root out’ fraudsters when it runs at 0.3% of all claims but they can’t do something as simple as lower VAT. They’ll pour hundreds of billions of quantitative easing into the pension funds and banks who will promptly pay bonuses and dividends with their tax funded windfall but they won’t give working households a tax rebate that they’d spend. Heating and food bills are on the up while incomes are on the way down, I’m no economist but eve