More Austerity To Come

George Osborne announced at the Tory party conference in Birmingham there are still 4 years of austerity to come for all of us.

It is not exactly the sort of news you expect to hear a few months before an election.  The vast majority of people are feeling pain now, so the prospect of 4 more years of pain is not entirely welcome.


Of  course politicians and quangocrats, senior civil servants and public sector managers are not feeling any pain.  They are doing quite OK. So are bankers, lawyers, accountants etc in the private sector.


The rest of us will have to bear the pain. But that is just life - 14 million people being squeezed produces far more than 10's of thousands. 


Hopefully the pain will be worth it and I look forward to a massive blow out in 2020!