The truth is, however, that we have some huge spending priorities, stacked up ever higher by years of unproductive expenditure (e.g. the amount Thatcher spent on handing out unemployment benefits to those who needn’t have been unemployed but were kept so as a result of vindictive economic policies). Housing is now the biggest of these – and it can’t be done without public expenditure.

If we redistribute resources on the premise that society will break down if we don’t, it makes no sense to suddenly stop. It makes even less sense to consider that we’ve been forced into the position by deregulation and an irresponsible level of private lending, but are planning to extricate ourselves by applying pressure to those least able to bear it – the people who require health services, education services and welfare services.

The wealthy have their own versions of these services: it’ll be the rest of us stuck with problems when our local NHS authority refuses to offer an operation on the basis of expense, or when schools are being expected to implement Extended Schools policies without concomitant remuneration.

Now you may make the argument that ultimately all redistributive spending is predicated upon taxation, which requires an economy to succeed, in turn requiring the confidence of investors – which we are in danger of losing, should we persist in high levels of borrowing at the risk of having our rating downgraded still further.

My argument in reply is that any economic model predicated upon the labour and suffering pf the least able is both immoral and unsustainable, and that it is the economic model which should be changed, not the principle of redistribution. But you knew I would say that.

The word ‘pandemic’ is being used so mean ‘really-bad-epidemic’ when thats not what it means at all.

What made me maddest was being told that the virus attacked people between 20 and 40. Bull! Surely the reason the elderly and very young weren’t infected first in Mexico was because they don’t work on Pig farms!

Worst of all yesterday had to be the londonpaper, to whose reportage one person commented ‘I just want to cry.’ Too flipping right!

We sell sex to children these days from pop to clothes to your old enough to vote, children are not allowed to play, my grandson is fourteen he is going out this month to have a week working in a MC Donald’s or what ever so he can see what work is like, he has two more years in school yet, but he has to get use to it, working in a p*ss poor quality job might put him off work all together.

We are making our kids grow up, and when they do grow up we say it’s wrong, sex is natural we need to make them understand that having a child is not about sex by it’s self, we need to help them protect themselves from becoming pregnant.