Thursday 1 May 2008

we will all be living in shit street!!!!

Another one of my mams favourite sayings, "we will all be living in shit street by next week if things carry on like this". Never has that saying been more true!
Diesel is now about 120p a litre give or take a penny or so and expected to go to 150 by the summer, groceries are therefore going up as a result, energy bills are soaring, I heard yesterday if your car is older than 7 years old it could cost an extra £240 to tax from next year. WELCOME TO RUSSIA COMRADE. we will soon be seeing queues outside grocery shops trying to get scraps of food, and the black market will be rife with bacca cigs booze etc etc, I am no economist and to be honest all I have worried about in the past is how much have we got to last us the month and is it less than what we need to pay out to live for that month, up to now we have just about managed it. before Christmas when we went shopping we spent about 85 to 110 pounds a week at tescos depending on if we needed wash powder and the like on certain weeks but they were the sort of upper and lower levels that we went to, in the last 6 weeks or so we have not yet been below 110 pounds and it is often nearer to 125,and it is only going to get worse. The french wouldnt stand for this they would be rioting and demanding action but what do we do? bugger all except whinge about it thats what.
Did Tony Blair see all this coming and get out at just the right time? or was he just lucky?, all this has not just happened in the last year or so it must be a build up.....OK the oil is an outside thing because it is from abroad but all the rest of the shit we are in must be down to bad management of the countries finances over the last few years, ie credit crunch, interest rates, mortgage fears and the like has Mr Brown been shit on from a great height and does he now wish he had stayed in his previous job,which incidentally was.................................yep that's right, so maybe he deserves all this for his bloody incompetence, like i said I'm not an economist so I don't understand but all I do understand is that we are being shafted at every turn.
Tracy is going to Madrid for a weekend soon to see a Spanish girl who worked as a locum doctor for the surgery last year I have told her to ask what the job market is like for nurses over there, and believe me I'm seriously considering pissing off somewhere because we cant carry on as we are. Last Sunday I put £50 worth of diesel into my car and it never even touched 3/4 on the fuel gauge, ridiculous.
So anyway if your passing shit street drop in and see us we will be at number 6.

1 comment:

Mark T said...

well at least if food is too expensive, it might stop obesity in kids!

Oil reached a new high last week, so prices will go up, however, they have just found a new 'oil lake' in Brazil, so in theory prices could be back down to around $40 a barrel when that comes on stream...

Lets hope Bush leaves office before he hears about Brazils new oil. Otherwise Brazil just may have to suffer an American style 'liberation' before too long