Why is it the Government's job?

Its interesting that companies hit by the huge increases in gas prices and energy prices in total are pleading with the government for special help.

Just why is it the government's job to bail out everyone?

I know the rises are unprecedented, but really companies need to reassess their energy usage, maybe increase costs to cope and do what companies do naturally. If necessary reduce energy usage: try and be more energy-efficient, do things differently. Become fitter, leaner and more successful.

Not rely on the government artificially changing the playing field.

Faith.

 The majority of voters lost faith with the Labour party an long time ago. No longer do they reflect the people that they hope would vote for them.

But it's clear that voters are quickly losing faith with the Tories as well. The supposedly Conservative and Unionist party is fast becoming nothing of the sort.

It seems that after the Corporate Cronyism of the Blair Government, we have the Corporate Cronyism of the Coalition and then the Corporate Cronyism of the Cameron Government. 

It seems that the May and now Johnson Governments are more of the same. The Pandora papers have opened up the web of mega-rich donors supporting both sides of the political isle. 

The British public seem to be losing faith with Boris Johnson. In conversations now, his stature is much diminished. Whereas he was seen as some Churchillian Bulldog leader,  he's now seen as a lapdog. Following the mostly conflicting advice from his panel of medical "experts", he has lumbered from one PR disaster to another, actively contradicting himself on consecutive days. Over the past 18 months he's not looked like much of a leader.

As a person he's popular. He did amazing stuff while in charge in London. But it seems that now in charge of Government, it's a different Boris we are seeing. He's physically aged in the last few months too.  It just makes you wonder what issues he's trying to wrestle with.

Is he being strong-armed by his billionaire backers to not increase taxes on the mega-rich to claw back the expense of the pandemic?

Is he trying to reconcile the inability to claw back the borrowing without significantly raising taxes for the poor? Is he having discussions with his rich mates who don't want to contribute? Are the mega-corporations refusing to co-operate?

All this build back better bollocks looks pretty shit to me. It looks like the near future is going to consist of sky-high inflation and hardship for those of us that are on PAYE and cannot escape taxation.

These are troubling times, because if the government doesn't get a handle on the situation (and there is next to nothing being announced) then the door is opened to the more extremist parties to gain a foothold, from both the right and left of the spectrum.

Pandora's Box

 Now it seems every News outlet in the World is looking into the contents of the Pandora Papers. 

It looks like every millionaire that offshores their money has been exposed, along with their links to political parties and the influence they have on government around the world.

It's quite clear, there is an elite. And elite that has the ability to influence government policy not in individual political parties, or individual countries, but around the world.

The conspiracy theorists have been proved right about the elite club given various names. 

It's quite clear in whose interests they work. Their own. That's why in the past decade the top 1% have increased their wealth. 

It has to stop. The inequalities in the world are now all too apparent. There are too many people not making a living wage from work. The Blair government tried to ease the situation by providing in-work benefits, but it's really robbing Peter to pay Paul. Using taxpayer's money to prop up other taxpayers.

As the overall tax take starts to decline and governments borrow more money and get their national banks to print more money, they are only storing up problems for later.

They have to say to their rich benefactors that if they bleed to people too much then the people will have nothing to lose. There comes a point that the people will say enough and the issue will not be resolved peacefully. At the very least it could lead to extremist political parties coming to power.

The Pandora Papers hopefully now shines a light on how much and where this money is going. The mega-rich are now exposed. Hopefully governments will be having discussions with them about finally paying their dues.