From Gino Risoli.
OUR new government positions are slowly unravelling. Most of us would agree that it is business as usual.
Spending continues to be out of control, cuts are already happening in the wrong places. I have been reliably informed that classroom assistants who leave will not be replaced in the education of our children.
The gap between ordinary folk on the street and the Armani-suited government is as huge as ever.
Thousands of credit cards are used by civil servants – on what we do not know. Our government has supported the finance industry and that industry has let us down so miserably but has passed off without a meaningful slap on the wrists from our government for the damage that they have heaped upon us.
The same seek to increase their margins by charging more for overdrafts and more for penalties instead of being humbled to a position where they give back what they have squandered. It is a question of taking responsibility. The higher up the ladder of society, the more one can insure oneself from that responsibility, with ordinary people always picking up the tab.
The gap between the middle classes and the government is beginning to show. If the government is not careful, the ugly head of radicalism may surface in the absence of their knowing. We have a huge government, which is of course carried by the private sector. Many things are overlooked when everyone is doing fine, but if we get substantial job losses the private sector will revolt against anything that the government gets wrong, and they get an awful lot wrong.
Everyone is waiting for the warmth of summer to make us all feel better, but the chill winds that are likely to blow this year may make the passing of summer go unnoticed.
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St Helier.
