I remember, as an apolitical kid (before a decade of Tory destruction) thinking this song was about a bygone age in a faraway land.

“A #HungryMob is a #AngryMob”

— ‘By [creating] today’s property-obsessed, profiteering economy, Margaret Thatcher did not “defeat” British inflation, as she promised, but made it worse in the long run instead.
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For the poor, inflation has worsened the social emergency already caused by austerity, widespread ill-health and stagnant wages.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/cost-of-living-crisis-uk-prices