NEW DEAL OR NO NEW DEAL.

It looks as though, even during the summer recess of parliament, we will have the usual sideshows continuing. A review of the benefits system (some hope). If the government lost all of recipients votes we would have Glasgow East plus all over the place. The cabinet, from their various summer vacation retreats, will huff and puff for a while before shelving the turkeys' equivalent of voting for christmas.



What is interesting is the total shambles of the 'child trust fund', which came into being in 2002. £250.00 per child to be invested against each birth, presumably upon application. That figure is now worth a little over £206.00 in 2002 terms. We can rest assured that the scheme is costing the tax payer a pretty penny.



DRUGS BARONS NEEDN'T GET EXCITED.