Decorating lamp posts anyone?

Well from a lovely day yesterday I awake this morning to find the weather echoing my mood on my last day at home - depressed.

Now I'm even more depressed and angered to learn that whilst we are facing increased living expenditure, with a further lowering of our living standards in this coming year, the piggies at the trough want more from us.

This is just blatantly extracting the urine.

My employer does not subside (let alone pay for) my living expenses whilst I'm either at work or on leave. In fact our victualling allowance on board has not been increased for two years now. Nor have we had a pay rise in that time, with no sign of one on the horizon for this year either.

Yet where's the "all in it togetherness" of this?

Talk about the contempt we hold our politicians in, if they cannot see that actions such as this increase this disdain, then a few lamp posts need decorating.

I always felt that we let our political elite off the hook too lightly when their plundering of our pockets was exposed. Seeing them flick two fingers at us over their continued troughing only re-enforces that belief.

With out some shedding of blood it looks as if are political elite are now beyond our control.

On that happy note I'll wish you all a nice day.

ps

I wonder if we'll see "troughing" make it into the OED this year?