It’s like people who now express relief that diesel is ‘back to £1.757/litre’ (£7.82/gallon in Proper Mannies’ calculation) forgetting that the manky profiteers, encouraged by a laissez-faire, market-trusting government, were coining it at £1.496/litre (£6.66 PMC) only 9 months ago.

The ****ing gullibility of The Man/Woman/Other on the Clapham/Clatt omnibus, that these robbers and tricksters are shot through with altruism and benignity, never ceases to mesmerise me.