The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I’ve just received an e-mail from a friend, Mel Few. In it he quoted Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, and orator.

`The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and
controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest
Rome become bankrupt.

People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.`

Cicero said this way back in 55 BC. It could be said of today’s UK. 

Mel quips: “Evidently, we’ve learned bugger all over the past 2,069 years.”