Farage should donate his pension to the Treasury

People are taking fewer sickies, dragging themselves in to work fearing that otherwise they will lose their jobs.

Inflation is at 3% but pay remains flat. Food costs have gone up 4%, forcing people's spending on non-essentials to drop by 3.8%.

Rough sleeper numbers increased by 15% last year - despite the government talking about halving it by 2022 (only three years away). Britain has around 18,000 homeless, with half of those sleeping in some sort of shelter (such as a car) and the rest sleeping rough.

Millions of people are not able to save enough for a comfortable retirement, while the official pension keeps being pushed up and up, meaning many will have to keep working into their 70s or retire in poverty.

At least Mr Farage is alright, Jack. He is all set to take his EU pension of £73,000.

His pension is part of our financial agreement with the EU - a large chunk of our Leave payment will be to cover pensions such as his. Given that Mr Farage says the settlement is too big (what we will pay to the EU - not what they are paying him), it would be a nice gesture if he donated his EU pension to the Treasury in order to bring down the cost slightly.