Well another very long week at work. 6 days again this week and nearly 70 hours once again.
You know we in Britain work longer hours than almost anyone else in Europe. We pay more tax than most in Europe and we pay more for everything we need than most countries in the world.
We are known the world over as " Rip-off Britain! " and with good reason as the major players in the market place know they can get much more for their good here than anywhere else and we still let them get away with it. 
Examples are being shown on how we get ripped off all the time. This week there was a programme on TV proving once again that most of our electrical good such as TV, computers etc are much cheaper in the US as was shown in one example where it would be cheaper to fly to New York for the weekend and buy a top end laptop, pay the tax when you got it back here and still have money left over from the money you would have spent buying the same laptop here !!!
It does not stop there though.. its the same with our clothes and womens make-up, purfumes, sports goods,cars and increasingly our food.
OK we can all do without expensive toys maybe but we can not do without energy to heat our homes and that too we are being ripped off for. Fuel bills for the home have shot up and we are told this is because the cost of the gas and oil are going up all the time and the companies have no choice but to pass on those increases !!?? But how can that be true when for a period last year when they opened a new gas pipeline in to Britain and the gas was being given away to the companies as they had so much of it we saw no decrease in our heating and cooking bills but a massive rise in the profits of the energy providers ???
This rip-off of Britain has been an open secret to the world for decades now and still we have to suffer whilst our own government does nothing. OK they set up commities and agencies to "monitor" and " regulate" the energy companies but these are toothless lions that do nothing much but hand out fines now and then that have no effect on the compamies they fine as they have the power just to pass such fines straight onto us.
So next time you get a chance to ask your MP a question try asking him/her what they are doing about " Rip-off Britain " and see if they have an answer ?? I am betting they don't !!!
