The state of the roads in the UK is shocking. This is no secret. A combination of extreme weather conditions and cuts to public spending has resulted in pot holes that are clearly doing damage to the vehicles that use our roads. I would imagine that the cost of the repairs to the cars and trucks is probably greater than the savings made in the nation's road budgets, but the government will shrug that off as something that results from a free market capitalist economy. Just as they shrug off the growing number of people made redundant by unnecessarily savage cuts to public spending, and the increasing pressure on families dependent on benefits. And in a supreme piece of arrogant and unabashed condescension, the Tory politicians talk about 'difficult times and having to make tough decisions'. Yeah, but not for you mate! The cabinet is clearly cocooned in a fuzzy blanket of self-righteous ideological certainty made all the more comfortable by their substantial private fortunes. The disconnect with the general public being made to pay for the errors of government and the greed of bankers and capitalists worldwide is broad and still growing - a bit like the holes in the roads. Presumably Cameron's completely barmy Big Society will result in diy road fixing by motorists, as illustrated.
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