The above are all headlines in the news today and sum up just what a mess Labour have got Britain in to. Everyone I speak to at the moment just seems to be crying out for a change of Government and for Labour to be booted out.

It comes to something when a Government can manage in the same year to increase pensioner poverty, increase child poverty, undermine the housing market and still manage to raise taxes on hard working people. In fact, Labour's most recent tax changes, to scrap the 10p tax rate and raise taxes on older cars, actually hit some of our poorest people the hardest.

Who knows what people will think come the election. I am certainly not going to get excited by all these massive opinion polls leads we seem to have at the moment. Polls this far from an election mean nothing.

All I know is that local people are finding life harder and more expensive by the day. Our local Labour MP, who as the Vice Chairman of the Labour Party is at the heart of this Labour Government, seems to have little to say about any of these huge issues. Just the usual cheap photo opportunities and self-promotion in the local press. Not much use to local people facing higher taxes or negative equity! No wonder so many ex-Labour voters are contacting me to offer support.