Change was promised. It hasn’t arrived

HOPE springs eternal.

Hope is what we need right now, and bags of it. As a New Year dawns, the world as we know it isn’t looking too hot.

There is still a sense of unreality about what is unfolding. In one way, the last 12 months have been a continuation of the previous three years. Unemployment is still crawling up. The waves of immigration grew taller. Austerity bit at all levels of society, but as always those who inhabit the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder suffered most.