High Living.
Friends and readers. It has been reported that Edinburgh is now the most expensive place to live in the UK. Suprise Suprise. As you know as a city becomes wealthier poverty seems to become more acute. According to reports 93% of salary is swallowed up by regular outgoings-rent ,utility bills and debt repayment.
Goodness only knows how those without a salary manage.Certainly in Greater Pilton where poverty is a real issue very little of this citys supposed wealth reaches here.
The wealth as usual is in a few hands usually or in Edinburghs case in the more affluent areas,or in the hands of big business,you know the people who leadership contender Mcginnis was crawling to the other night.
Most of the wealth generated in this city which we are told by our noble rulers runs into hundreds of millions,depending on who is bullshiting you at the time,does not come to us puny citizens us moaning wimps,oh no it stays in the hands of the few,who then have the cheek to tell us that it creates and sustains jobs-who for Australian bar staff or hotel staff,or East European labour who can be exploited and paid sweeties.
No dear friends what ever excuse our noble rulers give us the money does not trickle down to the underclasses,in fact we are told regularly that our community charge has to increase,or our rents have to go up.
You do not have to be brain of Britain to realise that the cost of a loaf of bread is the same for a rich person as it is for a poor person. If this city is supposedly swimming in money why cant we have a rent freeze or a community charge freeze if not all over the city then in the poorer areas,wouldnt that be something.
But alas dear friends that will not happen the poor will continue to be fleeced the low wage earners will be fleeced as well,while the better off go from strength to strength.
So we can only stand by and watch this wealthy city get wealthier and wealthier, while many of our citizens struggle to make ends meet. All this with a Labour Executive, A labour Government,and a Labour local authority,makes you wonder who is on the side of the weakest in society.Â