Pensions have risen by 26 per cent in the past eight years. But our rates have gone up four times that amount in the same period, by about 102 per cent, with more to come.
The Government has taken the enormous rate receipts out of the inflation tables so that figure sounds good in political speeches but it is totally fictitious. Such is socialism.
World-wide, new car prices in the past eight years have gone down by ten per cent. Some foreign holidays are now cheaper than the TV licence of the the massively over-manned BBC. A host of other private enterprise goods have come down by more. Such is capitalism.
-TS Peters, Brighton
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