Work No Longer Pays.

 How can it be that a joint household income of £40,000 before tax isn't enough to pay rent and bills? 

Between us, that's what myself and the wife earn. But between us, it seems it's not enough to rent a house, pay the bills and run a car. Right now we both don't have any spare cash, our disposable income has dried up. 

So much so that it looks like it's baked beans on toast for tea on a regular basis from now on. It's not a life, it's subsistence.

Right now I'm dreading the energy increases in the Autumn, because if it's anything like this spring's increase, then I won't earn enough to pay the bills. I have at most about £50 spare cash to spend on non-essentials.

It does make you wonder if work pays. Would we be better on benefit? 

There used to be a time when the Tories were the party of low taxes, of making work pay. But these days they've joined the homogenised morass of Social Democrat MPs in Parliament. Literally we do not have any choice in how we vote. Every party is bent on increasing taxes and environmental levies and stiffing the poor. 

Just what do you do if working no longer pays the bills? 

More importantly, why is this government policy? Why is it policy to add levies to energy? Surely renewables have had a decade of development and by now the technology should be mature and able to be installed and generate energy without subsidies? Or are we just spaffing money to big corporations for the sake of it? 

Fuel: why are we importing refined Diesel from abroad? Why are the refineries at Stanlow, Fawley, et al not back refining crude oil? 

Why are we paying more money to Government for less in the way of services? 

Why are we putting up with all of this shit?

Cucks, the lot of 'em and the Despair of the Politically Homeless.

 Why is it when I see any of the male contenders for the Tory top job, the only word that comes to mind is "Cuck". And I mean "Cuck", In the sense of he'd let someone else screw his wife. No Guts, no Gumption (good Northern Word that), a distinct lack of spherical object-da dangling where they should be. 

The number of contenders I would vote for if there was an election is exactly zero. 

I am politically homeless. None of the major parties reflect or respect my personal viewpoints. The Reform party is close, but I just can't bring myself to trust anyone in leadership at that party. Too posh, too "Gentleman's Club", way too close to being a bit Grammarschooly, a bit too "we know what's good for you". Still looking down on the working poor despite eschewing policies that say would benefit them and vying for their vote.

I want a party who's policies benefit everyone equally. No quotas, no positive discrimination, no "writing historic wrongs". Deal with the here and now, propose a future where everyone working towards that future reaps the benefit.

Government, Public, Rich, Poor, Corporations and Companies, Banks, Builders, Stock Markets and Socialists. 

I want Everyone to work towards the benefit of the country as a whole.

No me, me, me, no greed.

I want people that work against the benefit of the country to be penalised. Tax the greedy corporations that maximise profits and payouts for shareholders and pay poor wages. Reward those businesses that invest in workers, reward those that embrace competition and slam those that create cabals. We want low prices, but do it by doing business in a better way. Maximising profit at the expense of workers should be as socially unacceptable as paedophilia. Make them pay triple the standard rate of N.I. if they keep paying poor wages.

I want people that pay their fair share to be rewarded. I want companies that raise their workers out of poverty and away from in-work benefits to get tax breaks. 

I want us to work for the common good, not greed. 

I want us all digging in the same direction: out of this shitty hole we find ourselves in.

The Demise of Disposable Income

Well, it had to happen: I no longer have any disposable income. Checking my bank account has become a daily thing, making sure there is enough in the account to last the month.

Despite changing to a smaller, more economical car, the rise in petrol prices since I swapped has negated the benefit. I've also had a 2 grand pay rise, a rise of 10% because I went to the boss and said that if things got worse I'd have to look at working more locally. Even though I only work seven miles away. 

Now, all those attempts to keep the wolves from the door have been negated. I'm still in a worse place than I was at the beginning of the year and back then I was on less money and had a bigger car.

I hate to think what's going on with people that were already at the point of having no spare cash at the beginning of the year.

But we are the forgotten group: the working poor. Those on wages lower than the national average, those that don't qualify for any benefits, that struggle to survive only on what they can earn. No hand-outs for us, no cost of living benefit for us. 

Who will fight for us? Who will recognise our struggles? 

Not the Conservatives; they're in power and haven't helped us at all save the 5p a litre cut in fuel duty that lasted 3 days. Oh, and the £150 quid one-off refund that everyone got through council tax. Big deal.

Not Labour either, content as they are to increase immigration to bolster their vote because the working class won't vote for their Communist woke shitery.

And certainly not the Liberals, so focussed are they on pressing the middle classes.

We really needs party of the poor right now. A party that supports what the poor working class of this country supports. Patriotism without extremism, socialism with a smalls and conservatism with a small c. It supports workers and especially the working poor. It penalises the most excessive corporations that do not give back to the country, it penalises the rich who avoid taxes.

We need it now.