Friday we had the Tories mini financial that was not mini, but which was a budget. A budget for the rich, the very rich, the super rich, but left people like me with scarcely a cent more in my pocket. I do to pay National Insurance, in fact I would have been happy to as in the end it is people like me who are heating towards are dotage that would have benefitted from this benefit, but I do not pay National Insurance, but it does mean my company has made a small saving, which they will not pass onto me as this year our pay has been frozen. Meanwhile the value of my pension has gone down another £200 and it has already lost over £1000 in value since the energy crisis. And yet the Kwasi Karteng claims we will all be better off. It is great that the Tories have such a diverse group of leaders, but if only any of them had common sense or decent values and felt it was more important to look after those on limited means rather than those on top. Things just get darker and darker here. But abroad the pictureis darker still. The Italians have just voted in another right winger and the climate crisis has impacted several nations recently - Canada, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, now the Phillipines and yet Rees Mogg wants to ignore professional advice and climate science and pump more CO2 into the atmosphere.
I have personally had potentially some good news, but whether the world will survive long enough for me to benefit, who knows. I write this very limited blog just in case history wants the trivia of the ordinary person, but maybe none of us will be left this time next week as Putin and Biden are in getting the very very very big guns out. Thousands are trying to leave Russia, now they are being forced to stay, will that help topple Putin or just make things worse. Dark times indeed.
It is the start of the Big Green Week, and we have a special event at the garden, so let's hope that at least will be cheerful.
