State policy is to make us even poorer

We know we're going to get poorer. Petrol up, energy up, unemployment up, wages clamped, inflation up, and that's before interest rates start returning to realistic levels. Government is still spending more than it's getting in taxes, apparently intending this to go on for ever - though it can't.

But your state is going to do its bit to make you even poorer. Yes, this is the policy of your state, the people that you voted for.

Presumably hypocrite Huhne will eventually get charged with perverting the course of justice, but his policy is government policy, doubtless supported by the nasty vacuous greenie Cameron even as the standing of the IPCC falls even lower and even its own predictions forecast lower rises in temperatures - while emissions of carbon dioxide soar.

Government policy is that "families will pay £280 a year in ‘green taxes’ by 2020 to fund the shift to wind, solar and nuclear power.... Households currently pay £89 a year on their bills for the green energy drive".

So they're going to make you poorer in order to support this lunacy. Huhne's line is that

By 2020, we expect household bills to be 7 per cent – or £94 – lower than they would otherwise be without our policies.

Britain’s homes will be cheaper to heat and light than if we did nothing.

That assumes you will have cut your electricity use by a third and gas by 6%. However will you cut electricity use by a third?

(Actually gas prices will keep falling as more and more countries bring shale gas deposits on stream, making so called renewables even less economic. Money down the drain - or rather into the pockets of the foreign suppliers.)

Separately, up to a fifth of councils in England may not accept the government's offer to help pay for a freeze in council tax next year, suggests the BBC.

One finance director of a Conservative-controlled district [said] that the deal "financially makes no sense" and would result in a bigger-than-planned hike the following year.

They don't get it. We're already going to get poorer. Did you hear that? Poorer. And you want to grab even more of our money?

That's insane. Why are you not planning to take less?