I guess I’m not living in the real Uk. You know the one, the one where everything’s sweetness and light and the economy looks just fine and dandy.

I live in a World where people are scared witless for their jobs and save every penny they can for the rainy day they see coming very soon. Luxuries are a distant memory. I live in a UK where soooo many youngsters don’t have a job and don’t have any hope of getting one in the foreseeable future. I live in a Uk where local businesses go bust on an almost weekly basis and where the small towns and villages have huge numbers of bordered up shop fronts. And every third shop is a charity shop.

I don’t get all this impressive data we’re seeing, I really don’t .