The Government languishes in the polls. The voting public who gave it a loveless majority wants it out of office as soon as possible. Too many feel let down.
They feel the Government taxes them to the hilt to give too much money to foreign governments and illegal migrants. The current mood reminds me of an old story.
A hard-pressed taxpayer was filling in his form. He reached the question that asked him to list his dependents. He wrote in 8.3m on Universal Credit, 3.1 m on Pip, 1.8m on Housing benefit and 1.8m on Attendance Allowances and sent in the form.
The Tax Office told him he had got the wrong answer to the Dependents question. He wrote back with an apology, saying he had left out the nationalised railway, the Bank of England for its bond losses and the Post Office for compensation to its staff.
Most of us taxpayers are willing to pay money to help the disabled and those who have fallen on hard times and need a hand up. Too many taxpayers now feel they are being taxed to excess to support the waste and mismanagement of money on a large scale.
People think that too many illegals come to the UK to live in hotels free of charge and go on to receive benefits and other financial support. They think too many people are granted a sick note for life when they could be helped into work. They see colossal waste in nationalised industries and resent the lack of any debate about the huge losses of the Bank of England and the railways, which they must pay for.
I remember years ago when we also had a nationalised railway. I was waiting patiently with other commuters for the early train to London at Didcot station.
It was yet another day when our train was either cancelled or greatly delayed. A commuter who knew the system politely asked the staff to stop the next fast train to London so we could get on.
The answer was no. We then heard a staff member say to another - expletives deleted - "Anyone would think we ran the railways for these people".
It captured the complete disconnection between a nationalised business and its season ticket-paying customers. It appeared to us commuters that far from us being the entitled ones, it was the staff who thought they were entitled. Clearly, they saw they answered to a higher power than the travelling public and knew they would be paid, however bad the service.
This Government says it now wants to rebuild lost support. It should start by remembering the key promises it made in its manifesto that persuaded some to vote for it and allowed many others to abstain, thinking they could live with a Labour government they did not much want. People were swayed by the clear promise not to raise their taxes, with a couple of narrow exceptions over non-doms and VAT on school fees.
They were reassured that the Government would smash the gangs and end the small boats, which the previous Government had failed to do.
They liked the promise of easier access to GPs, cheaper energy, and better rail services.
In every case, the Government has done the opposite of what it promised. Taxes are up, energy prices are up, small boat crossings are up, rail fares are up, GP waiting times have lengthened, and train and doctor strikes have continued.
The public can see the ballooning benefit bill as the government adds hundreds of thousands of new recipients and reduces the proportion who need to look for work. Alarm clock Britain feels it is being taxed more and served less.
So, who does the government work for? Why do so many think it now works for the EU, for international lawyers, for illegal migrants, for the UN and not for them as hard-working taxpayers?
The Prime Minister is so often abroad, giving our money away to yet another foreign cause or government. The Chancellor is at home plotting yet another way to tax anyone who dares to strive or make a success of their lives. No wonder Labour is so low in the polls.
If they want to recover, they need to start all over again. They need to reverse many of the bad decisions they have made in the first 18 months. They need to back the workers, lower the taxes, improve the services, and say "no " more often to foreigners demanding gifts.
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