Politics carries on: how a Monarch's tragic death doesn't prevent corruption, laziness, opportunity and stupidity

You’d think that following the tragic death of Her Majesty, the clocks had stopped and the world had stopped turning.

The realisation for me that it hadn’t stopped came when I stared at my pre-pay meter and noticed that even though the Queen had died - tragic and sad as it was - the numbers appeared to be going down a lot faster than they did last year irrespective of whatever grand and confusing scheme the government announces that ultimately ‘doesn’t go far enough’.