WARUN BOOFIT13 Oct 2026Not everyone is richer since 1975 but I certainly am and I believe at least 95% of your readers probably are. I have a local newspaper article from the 1920s, my ancestors evicted by constables because they could not pay the rent on their hovel, they placed their few chatels in the street, it was winter so they were provided with a tent and told to move on, no free council house available. These days illegal immigrants with no id who may be Iranian terrorists are housed in hotels kept warm and well fed. I am dumbfounded by the assertion of this article, its ridiculous, you now live in a million pound house with another in Greece, probably have pension pots worth hundreds and thousands of pounds. I expect Mr Frisby probably has a few million pounds stashed , maybe in crypto, do you and Mr Frisby feel impoverished ? I was poor in the 1960s and 70s, I had an Austin 1100 in the 1970s which cost 15 pounds, I was done over by the car dealer, he should have paid me to take it away but I learned how to weld and keep it running. I could if I desired buy a car new today, I choose to drive an old banger, I have never been able to shake off feeling the need to be careful with money. Surely most of your subscribers by the miracle of compound interest and share price appreciation are better off today than 1975, Divorce, kids, market corrections and bad choices invariably dent your pile, I never minded the kids doing that. I have wasted a fortune on fraudulent AIM shit, a large amount on the Wood Group fraud, Lonmin lies , lots of similar blunders since I started gambling on shares nearly 50 years ago but somehow against the odds and being robbed by politicians raising tax I am better off than in 1975 and no thanks at all to capital gains on property or being in a highly paid job so I ask you just who has been impoverished ? I would not mind the level of tax if it were spent on defence but our taxes are being squandered on fraudulent benefit claims housing financial migrants, billions of fraud in NHS procurement , train drivers on 70k, seems whatever money the government get they find a way to squander it.
