Splashing out while the rest of us drown..

IDEALLY, according to Swim England, you want a pool at 27C for competitive races.

If you’re just going to be splashing about, maybe a little bit warmer, 28-29C.

We’re not sure what Rishi Sunak plans to do with his yet but we figure he’ll have an eye on the cost – so he might bring it in a little cooler. Say 25C.

At that temperature, it will cost him just shy of £13,000 a year.

But for a millionaire married to the daughter of a billionaire, it’s a mere – and forgive us here – drop in the ocean. This pool is just another example of the gulf that exists between this Government and the rest of us.

Across the country people have been battered by the cost of living crisis. And central to that is the incredible rise in energy prices.

Poverty

Overnight, people saw their bills double. Immediately, people were plunged into fuel poverty.

Maybe that is the fundamental flaw with this Government. They don’t understand. They can’t.

They are a cabal of millionaires, who break rules and promises without care. Of course, with this lot in charge, there were parties.

Of course there was luxury wallpaper and private jets and cronyism, affairs, non-doms, and all the rest of it. This is an outfit that shut down Parliament to get its way. They won’t stop.

So although a swimming pool is just another piece in the mosaic, it’s an important reminder.

Heating that pool could pay the average energy bill six times over. Think about him easing into his Speedos – or try not to – as people hesitate in front of the theromstat. Think of him poised on the high board, while thousands shiver in the cold.

We’re not all in this together. There’s a rich boys’ club in charge and it can’t see that people are choosing between heating or eating. Not waving but drowning.