Middle income group pays for flawed strategy

THE banks’ misconduct and arrogance, and the subsequent Government backing of their flawed strategies, is beyond even the harshest condemnation.

But ultimately we must demand to know of the Government exactly how it has managed to blow the surplus of decades leaving us in a recession reminiscent of the 1980s.

And while a move to protect the poor in any budget is admirable, where will the middle income squeeze stop?