JAM

[just about managing]

The new in phrase JAM coined by social media and the need for shorter sentences might be fun, but it does represent about 10 million people fall into this group.

What could this weeks autumn statement say to them?

Since her [Teresa May] statement outside 10 Downing street last June, is it possible for the government to help these people specifically?

Which areas could she help?
Childcare
Social Care
Welfare

The only problem I can see with this is, the people who are going to pay for this are the recipients!

Whether or not you regard yourself as a member of this group rather depends on your expectations in life. There are rich folk who will complain that they are “just about managing” to afford a holiday on a palm-fringed island because of the cost of paying the school fees.

In the absence of a clearer direction, the hard Brexiters have been making nearly all of the running in the Tory party. This is making business increasingly nervous that Britain could crash out of the EU without a deal on trade that they can live with.