[Margaret Pilkington]

I think that most of us have a healthy.....or perhaps that should be cynical perspective on figures released by governments, or on behalf of governments.
There have always been financial inequalities. I am not saying it is right.
If those huge multinational corporations were chased for the taxes they owed......If those who have children who were not resident in the Uk were prevented from claiming for these children.....if, if, if.
There would be funds to ensure those who are truly disabled, those who are truly in need to have enough to make ends meet.

Tax loopholes have existed for a long time. These allow those big companies to evade tax, but pensioners are being sent intimidating letters to retrieve a few hundred pounds that they have underpaid....not through any fault of their own, but due to HMRC miscalculations.

So the tax net catches the little flies, but the big ones sail straight through.
NO GOVERNMENT OF ANY COLOUR HAS ADDRESSED THIS......yet they have all had the opportunity.

You are right about some of the money trickling down........so far it hasn't happened.
Although we are told that things on the financial front have improved, there are many who are not feeling this in real terms.
The inequalities will not end anytime soon.......and we can forget the maxim that 'we are all in it together'.