Normal service is resumed

Sunday’s newspaper headlines: “Flood defence chiefs given big bonuses”; “Official: doctors do less work for lots more pay”; “Home Packs - a tool to raise council tax”. So, it’s back to more stories of this Government taking increasing amounts of money in tax only to waste it on extravagant spending which provides no better a service to the taxpayer. Even worse, on the issue of flood defences, it seems to be rewarding failure rather than success. With this approach typical, I’m pretty confident that the Brown bounce will be short lived.