Back to work

After almost 2 weeks of sporadic work it was back to the grindstone for most of London today and with it came the new fares for the trains. If its not bad enough that they are allowed to increase fares by 6 - 11% at a time when they should be reducing the cost to encourage people onto mass transit and out of their cars.

It seems all that Labour was once good at, Nationalisation is long gone. Sure the tories privatised the trains and the utilities and practically sold off the whole country. Do the trains run more regular? No. Are the value for money? No. So it was even more annoying that there was only a single ticket booth open and a line a mile long this morning of commutters needing to purchase new tickets. Of course there were people there making sure you paid, but only one to sell tickets. Crazy Britain.

Meanwhile Gordon Brown and that clown Darling seem intent on bankrupting us all by borrowing more and more money till tomorrows children are still paying off todays debts. Thats modern Britain. Hey ho.

Meanwhile the recession sets in further with even more shops folding and thousands heading for the dole queues. They say up to 1600 shops could close this year forced into liquidation. Seems these days you cant open the paper without hearing of another company folding. Makes you wonder who will be next.

We have been looking for a deal on a new flat screen televison as ours is starting to die. Thinking that we would pick up a great deal in the new year we decided to wait but no real bargains were to be had in most stores. The odd £50 here or £100 there. Only Commet had any deals that were remotely intesting. Meanwhile Curry's were offering half price TV stands. No wonder the store was full of people not purchasing anything. I think the consumer wants a fantastic deal and as someone in the chat room at work said today "I'll only buy if its 50% off or more". Crazy times and a crazy year lie ahead.