Presumably, those in London see a rather different man.

Voting for someone whose party has traditionally stood for low taxes must have a lot to do with it.

This year Tax Freedom Day will be on June 2. No, it's not a day when we can do everything tax-free.

It means that to raise enough money to meet the bill for everything that taxes pay for we all have to work from the beginning of the year till June 2 to pay for it. Only after that is the money we earn our own.

For comparison, in the United States Tax Freedom Day this year was April 23, and Israel's, one of the world's latest, is usually in early August. So where does all this money go?

When you look round Swaffham it's easy to see where some of it went.

There's the recent town hall extension, the new community centre, the re-vamped Assembly Rooms, the town centre improvements, and new building at Hamond's High School.

The improvements to the Market Square alone, done over the last three years, cost about £650,000.

Things that are harder to see are those that involve organisations that work behind the scenes.

Once upon a time it was easy. There was the council, whose work got paid for by taxes, and voluntary organisations, whose work was done by volunteers and with money raised from donations.

Now both central government and local councils give grants to voluntary groups, so they are no longer outside the tax system.

It has all got so complicated. We now even have groups that help other groups, co-ordinating their work and helping them apply for grants, thereby further sucking them into the tax system.

The Iceni Partnership appears to be one of these.

I say that only because it makes no attempt to explain itself on its "About Us" page on its web site: (www.iceni.info), while at the same time appears heavily involved in things that, in the good old days, would have been done by the council.

It really does make you wonder, am I looking at a tail that's wagging the dog or is it more a nodding dog on the shelf in the rear window of a car. Which bit is in control of what?