It is either paranoia or percipience. But I have the gravest and most dreadful feeling that we are currently watching an evil Tory plot being played out before our eyes. One which will see the poor get poorer, the vulnerable sicken and die and our cherished institutions swept away in a flood of greed and avarice.
You may say I am a dreamer but this is the stuff of nightmares. For it is surely impossible that intelligent people – and we have to assume the likes of Truss, Kwarteng, Coffey et al are intelligent - cannot realise that their current actions will only pour money into the swollen coffers of the already obscenely rich and suck it mercilessly out of the pockets of the poor, the children, the needy, the children, the vulnerable, the children.
Let us just for a moment examine a few items.
1 – They have removed the limit on bonuses paid to well dressed gents (mostly gents!) in the city and banking for merely doing their job;
2 – they have further removed the 45% rate of income tax which served in part to return some of those ill-gotten gains to the people who actually generated the money in the first place (us, the workers);
3 – they have created new opportunities for asset inflation and excessive profiteering (capital gains tax etc) to create the need for increasing interest rates which will further imperil the fragile housing market and cost the less well off huge sums;
4 – they have sought to offset that by creating yet more opportunities for greed creation with changes to stamp duty.
I could go on – there is much more, like the planning changes that will allow the greedy developers to continue to sit on planning permission for 700,000 houses while the land value increase while at the same time tarmacking over Britain.
Or like they release the brakes on fracking, a process unsuited to British geology, ineffective according to the boss of one of the biggest companies and which will produce not one drop of oil or gas for TEN years and is thus useless in the current situation.
So here is my theory – all this is a devilish plot. They have surmised (and been advised no doubt by the likes of Beastly Bannion or the twerp on QT last evening) that they have no chance of winning the election in two years time.
So they are deliberately wrecking the economy – and our lives along the way - so that when Labour win they can blame them for the mess. Just as they have lyingly done over the 2008 posh bankers crash that was fuelled by – you got it – Tory economics and their innate greed.
You watch – I shall not be around by then I reckon for which I am oddly grateful. This is a shitty world and it is not of my making.
