Oooo I feel so disgusted looking at this once great land that we live in. It makes me feel so like Victor Meldrew, that I thought I would list everything that gets up my nose (and you get to hear all about it), well I do have a SOAP BOX and I am gonna use it:

• About 10 years ago there was a petrol strike across the country because petrol had breached 90p a litre, yet here we are now with the price soaring through the roof and you hear nothing
• The so called political leaders are more bent than a 5bob note, screwing everyone in the country out of their cash, whilst they happily have every little thing paid for in their “second” homes (so nice to see people can afford second homes these days)
• The wondeful government don’t want people using their cars to travel on the over burdened roads, yet you are forced to pay to park your car at motorway services for more than 2 hours, so where is the incentive
• You now need to spend your spare time separating all of your rubbish and placing it in silly coloured bins and boxes to save the poor old binmen from doing what they are paid to do. Meanwhile the council tax increases and the quality of service degrades.
• Customer Service, never were 2 words so unmatched in a sentence, it doesn’t matter where you go or which company you speak to, by the time you eventually get to speak to anyone, they really could care less and really have no interest in assisting you with your problems
• The world is heating up at an amazing rate (don’t exactly know where this statistic is based on, have you seen the heatwave we are suffering at the moment, no me neither) and the only way to prevent it is to introduce some wonderful stealth taxes
• The economy is collapsing, house prices are falling (not some of the houses we have had a look at recently)
• Your pension is worth so little, that you will have to work until you are in your 80’s
• Red Wine is good for your heart and will keep you alive longer, but at the same time will increase the chances alheimers, so you have a choice drink wine and stay alive longer or drink nothing, die young but at least you can be grumpy and remember why

So I feel like a grumpy old man, but at least I have a young wife that listens to me go and probably ignore me as well.