And it's clearly going to get worse before it gets better. That's going to be really interesting, because the British are used to being rich rather than totally skint. Liz Truss is a swivel-eyed Libertarian fanatic, as are Crazy Kwarteng and the Rees-Mogg fracker. We need a vote of no confidence, a general election and a completely new government (Labour or Labour-Lib Dem national coalition.) After what's going to happen in the next few weeks (housing market collapse principally) nobody will trust the Tories again for at least 15 years, if the party survives at all.