[ritchiebaby]

I'll say right away that I believe in Government intervention in certain limited circumstances. But this "head-in-the-sand" Tory Government have taken it to extremes.

Firstly they are wholly responsible for excluding millions of vital workers because they have deliberately invoked a law that excludes these workers because they are "unskilled" or earn less than a certain amount. That's the hospitality, care, agricultural and haulage industries decimated already and a pathetic three-month "amnesty" isn't going to help one little bit. A prime example of Government intervention that is of no use whatsoever to the good of the country.

Now that industrial gas prices have gone through the roof, there are warnings from the energy-intensive industries that some are under such intolerable pressures to be able to continue in business. Added to that, the food processing industry (largely dependent on these pesky "unskilled" workers) apparently cannot process thousands of pigs that are ready to be slaughtered, leaving the farmers under severe pressure. They have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds by honouring their contracts to produce meat for the country and are being left in the lurch by an uncaring Government who haven't a clue about how businesses work and are often inter-dependent on each other. These are cases where the Government should be intervening and subsidising, but no, that's much too sensible.

All the Tories care about is getting their (and their pals') executive salaries and dividend income.

There are many other instances that could be quoted, but that would take up too much time.