Inflation is at 4.4% and rising. For some that figure is meaningless. Those who use up the bulk of their income on the basics; food (prices up 13%+), rent (zoom!), and fuel (whoosh!) are suffering from inflation of a much higher percentage. Most people don't believe government figures on inflation and cost of living anyway.
But help is at hand, Yvette Cooper says that the government is going to rectify things by cutting taxes. The poor are suffering so give the better off a handout. That's New Labour thinking. It's also Conservative thinking though they don't have to justify their discredited policies - tax cuts and more privatisation, same as New Labour - while the press are going for Big Business Brown and his motley milly band of top job jockeys.
Meanwhile the locusts are coming. My missus went shopping at Netto this morning and the place was crawling with middle class intruders snapping up the bargains. So we can expect that bastion of proletarian prudence to fall to the affluent and penny-pinching hordes. Is nowhere safe from these pushy people?

Mention of jockeys brings Alan Johnson PC to mind. He's keeping a very low profile in these days of backstabbing, rumour-mongering and insincere declarations of loyalty. Is he keeping aloof from this distasteful infighting? Or is he just waiting till the other contenders have sickened party members with their posturings and their ill-disguised treachery? Then he can offer his services as leader and claim the crown. My money's still on A.J.