Fuzzy Orange

If you’re one of those people who doesn’t like reading my rants – I’d skip this all together because this is a mahooosive rant.

Our current labour government, in my opinion, are the most useless bunch of arseholes we’ve ever had running this country

It’s -7c at the moment and there’s 6″ of snow outside my house. My car has got completely stuck and had to be pushed out 3 times this week (and I’m currently driving a 307 HDi which weighs a ton and is great in the snow – most people here with lighter petrol cars are completely stuck)

The main roads, if you can get to them, seem ok. But the villages are a virtual ice skating rink.
There hasn’t been a snow plough or gritter down here for 3+ weeks – and what are the government doing? Winging that we all need to go back to work, and kids need to start going back to school!
Well that’s fantastic, and how the hell are are we supposed to do that?
Also while I’m thinking about it where the hell does my council tax money actually get spent??? Or my road tax for that matter!!

Then there’s the beautiful work they did during the recession to help us all out by dropping VAT to 15% – WOOOO!

Unfortunately though what I predicted would happen is exactly what did happen.
When the VAT went down – shops didn’t want to relabel the retail price of everything – or change catalogs – so the retail price stayed the same. And the shop made 2.5% more profit

Now the VAT has gone back up – all the shops made a big “buy it before the increase” advertising hype – then whacked the prices up on everything a stupid amount.
A £2.05 bottle of conditioner in the supermarket went up to £2.30. Now my maths is rusty but even I know that’s over a 10% increase and the VAT only went up 2.5%… but most people just go “crikey isn’t this expensive now the VAT’s gone back up” and carry on regardless.
It was definatly worth me working all night new years eve to implement the VAT changes (again) – oh yes.

Still at least the NHS is awesome!!
My mum chipped a tooth badly 2 days before christmas and even though she is registered with an NHS dentist which she attends every 3 months – he was shut (on a friday.. probably polishing his porsche). So she rang the NHS emergency line and they couldn’t arrange anything for 2 days – and then that involved driving 40miles each way – in the end they told her to take some paracetamol!!

So… I just want to take this opportunity to say a big warm THANKS to the Labour government, the work they have done giving houses to the unemployed, splashing out so many benefits that it makes more sense to have 4 kids by the time your 17 than it does to go to college and get a career, heading blindly into wars in countries that not a single person here cares about.. it’s all just been wonderful. But if you wouldn’t mind now please piss off and give us a chance to have someone with half a brain cell run the country!

Thanks.

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