We are all doomed

I will happily admit that I was plodding on, paying little attention to this Credit Crunch.  Yes, I know the basics as I work in an indusrty where it is mentioned quite a bit, most notably the hysteria of American Insurer AIG almost going down the shitter.

But I can’t say it seemed to effect me too much.  Well that was until Friday.

Picture the scene chaps & chapettes.

It’s Friday, a few friends are coming round so me and the other half take a trip to ASDA.  We decide it is a good time to get the weekly shop, which we usually do on a Sunday.  We also purchase alcoholic beverages for the social gathering we are having.

Obviously, the drink makes the shop a bit more expensive, I see it coming, I’m cool with that.  No sweat.

Now up until a few weeks ago our weekly shop cost circa £75 although it has been creeping up, but nothing too dramatic.  So we spend around £20 on a case of beer and a couple of bottles of wine (yes it was cheap wine but that was her choice), no need in going over board, we had drink in the house.

Me, after shopping

So picture the disgust on my face (basically something like Jean-Luc there) when the kind woman on the till asked us for £144 pounds.  I retched and a little bit of sick came up.  I then went into a sort of trance, you know the like, when something plays out in your head and it all seems so real, then you snap back to reality.  The trance involved jumping over the counter, smash up the till unit, stealing some cash and bolting out of the supermarket all happy (and slightly crazy) like.

Fortunately I am of a stable mind.

Anyway, we didn’t buy anything that we wouldn’t normally (apart from a packet of Oreos, they are mighty good, you could even say kingly and they were only 73p, hardly bank breaking).  So if you take away the £20 for alcohol, that’s £124.  Circa £50 dearer than normal.

Ok it has been creeping up a bit, it’s not up £50 from last week but fuck me, it’s still a big jump.

That’s what you get when you have an inept cunt in charge of our money, well done Gordon Brown.  You fucked up when you were chancellor and now we are having to pay through the nose because Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingly have gone down the pan.

You bail out the fuckers who ballsed up their respective companies by nationalising them and passing the bill on to the public.

Also selling all our gold was a good idea eh?  But it’s Ok, the Bank of England will just pump shit loads of money into the system to keep it going.  Where does the money come from?

And yes I will moan about it, and yes I will vote.  But the Tories will be just as bad.  And the Lib Dems are a party full of twats.  BNP are ever so slightly racist so they’re out.  Who to vote for?

And yes I realise this rant is probably ever so slightly scewed in the fact that there are other factors but fuck it.

I’m skint and not happy.