It's holiday con time again...
THE annual row took place in one of our news conferences this week - and as always it provoked strong views from different parties.
It centred, as always, around the greedy grasping holiday companies who revel in ripping off those people who decide to have children.
"You should've thought of that before you had kids," bleated the free and easy among our number who can disappear off to foreign shores at the drop of a hat.
But why, I countered, should I pay £800 for a self catering pad in Corfu for a week in August when the same holiday costs £400 a week after the school holidays are over
"It's supply and demand, it's yer market forces innit?" they gloat.
That might be the case but wouldn't it make more sense for the holiday companies to use a bit of nous and put on more holidays, but sell them at slightly less?
That way every family could get away without being fleeced, tour operators would make more and everone would be happy and more productive on their return.
But with fuel surcharges and greedy carriers, soon the family holiday will be a thing of the past...then the prices might drop.
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Bad Dad, isn't the fact that holiday companies charge more at peak times (ie, school holidays) simply an example of the economic law of supply and demand - one of the foundations of capitalism?
Therefore, can I surmise that you will be voting for a socialist party at the next election?
How do you know I don't?
It's always dangerous to surmise Moseleyblu.