Liz had dreams of living in a Tax Free World! Part 2 By Alfred N.Muggins

14/10/22 / 17/10/22

    She wanted to get us up off our backsides, and go out to do longer shifts. It sounded like a good idea. Gross domestic Product would grow, (the economy size would grow)! We would be able to spend more and produce more (and probably just go around in circles more!) But would that improve the quality of our lives?

    “Liz, have you ever heard of quality of life?” suggested Alfred. She didn’t hear him, and just went on trying to run her Kamikase Government, but without Kwese now. She had borrowed Jeremy Hunt (from the left? Centre? Of her Party (or was he a Thatcherite hatchet man Chancellor? So surely that would make him a right wing Austerity?) For all his caring sounding words, was he ready to inflict yet more pain on the public services? What is left one year becomes right the next? Maybe he would be alright? We would see?

    Probably the Party Bigwigs had insisted she have him as Chancellor, but maybe she did not really want him? He wasn’t Kwase (we hope?) and would not run the government finances straight into the ground!

17/10/22

     Alfred knew ‘Quality Of Life’ was a rather unquantifiable measure, one which he doubted the civil servants would be too keen on using, and the driven and competitive politicians of the Tory Party were probably very unlikely to understand the full concept of it, as that sort of thing probably passed them by most of the time in their scrabble for existence and position in the choppy worlds of politics, investment and enrichment!