"The present state of discontent throughout the country is solely owing to the shocking financial mismanagement of every Chancellor of the Exchequer and lawmaker since peace was signed.

We won the war and the people who had been asked to make heroic sacrifices were simply expected to continue them afterwards as a matter of course.

What chance has the man of moderate means had to improve his position, to save a little for his old age, during the last ten years?
A third of his income has gone in taxation and the cost of everything is fifty per cent, more than it was before the war.

And we won it, mind.

That is what he can't understand.
We won the war and found ruin." "Legislation has done its best," the Prime Minister said, "to assist in the distribution of capital." "Legislation was too slow," Tallente answered bluntly.