Sandy 4 St Albans

Over the last week we learnt that…

Six NHS quango heads now earn more than the Prime Minister after seeing their salaries increase by 77% in the last three years;

The plummeting stock market and plunging house prices have wiped out £1.2 trillion of Britain’s national wealth;

Three hundred and thirty nine BBC staff members earn salaries in excess of £100,000;

The number of new mortgages for house buyers approved by the UK’s banks fell last year by 52%;

The Ministry of Defence wasted more than £300m of taxpayers’ money in 2008 due to errors;

The Government has failed in its 10 year objective of halving child poverty by 2010;

The new chairman of Royal Mail, Donald Brydon, will earn £200,000 for working just two days a week;

The average price of a house is down 16.6% on the same time last year [more] and 1.2 million households now find themselves in negative equity.

Just one more Gordon Brown week – and of course it’s all nothing to do with him.