In it together? What are you on about?!

What does it mean to feel rich? Is it chucking food into ones basket not checking the prices? Is it the ownership of a plasma HD tv? Is it the awareness of the difference between a Gilet and a bomber jacket? Is it eating out on any day of the week because you simply cannot be bothered to cook? Is it the many holidays you have experiances which do not include Spain or Portugal? This week a group of people who had regarded themselves as struggling by on modest means were horrified to hear they are loaded.

What a load of old tosh, families who lose child benefit from 2013 are not in fact the “squeezed middle” they are infact the top 15 percent of wage earners. They are, by all objective well off, yet never had noticed it. As wealth is realitive and synonymous, we hang out with people like ourselves. So we do not notice a 2nd car is a luxury, paying for two kids to go to Uni, yet pulling out 10k from one of the many savings accounts that you own is not the norm.

All I’ll say is, the class gap is as big as ever, we only just notice it when taxes go up.

Get used to it, 7k student loans here I come.

K