Angry

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We have heard it all before and we do know who suffered the most, who didn't suffer and who got richer. I'd think the bottom line is probably that there has to be a fairly equal distribution of belt-tightening or else there are going to be some rather cross people, the most interesting bit of which is probably how many of them are Labour MPs seeing misery at first hand in their constituencies, visiting their local food-banks and so on.

Our quality of life is in the hands of the government. That seems to me a good reason.

Labour and I have history and I at all times in all places say exactly what I like about them. My father's father was born in 1873, my father in 1906, me in 1955. Grandpa was the son of a master-weaver; 'those dark satanic mills' mean something to me personally. He was a socialist and a Fabian before there was a Labour Party. My other grandfather was a registrar of births, marriages and deaths in the East End and saw grinding hideous poverty at first hand. He worked to get the first Labour government into power.