Tonight that (genuinely) nice man Alistair Darling ignored pressure from that much less nice pair Gordon Brown and Ed Balls by conceding that money does not grow on trees - even under a Labour Government - and admitting that public spending will have to be cut significantly if our country is to pay back its colossal national debt this side of the next millennium.
Meanwhile, there has been an equally dramatic cut in the White household. Yes, the moment finally arrived. Jamie has had his first haircut.
With Vanessa in charge of the scissors, he was caught unawares during a pre-bedtime episode of Peppa Pig. She only got about an inch off the back, but it is a smart job and he now looks like a boy from all angles rather than just most angles.
It is merely the first effort and there are a number of other parts of his head - the front and both sides immediately spring to mind - which still need to be attacked.
But, unlike Brown and Balls, at least we were prepared to acknowledge there was a problem, before having the courage to begin doing something about it. So there.
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