There are distinct rumours that Mrs May is thinking of ditching the triple lock on pensions, as well as ditching the 2015 Tory manifesto pledge not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.
So, we could be looking at a future Tory government, where the value of your pension will go down, at the same time as taxes go up.
I don't know why you keep harping on about UKIP. Everyone, including their most ardent admirers, knows they haven't got a snowball's. You are more likely to wake up on June 9th to find wee Nicola in No. 10 than Nige. (Now there's something to scare the kiddies at bedtime!)
Khandro asks "why the foreign aid thing?"
When you cut through all the crap it's just showing off - it brings us no kudos at all, in fact quite the reverse..