Britain's comic Prime Minister
What a jovial place Britain has become! What a larky government it now has, led by its first ever satirical Prime Minister who, it now becomes clear, considers the main purpose of his great office is to enhance the gaiety of the nation!
For just look at what he is now proposing: a national index of well-being to measure how happy everyone is! Those dry and dusty number-crunchers of the Office of National Statistics are now going be told to perform the modern equivalent of extracting sunbeams from cucumbers – applying an objective measurement to subjective feelings that non-one can even define, let alone measure!
What a tremendously jolly jape! What a glorious, two-fingers up to stuffy old political leadership kind of frolic! What a playfully post-modern ironical joke at the expense of all those humourless individuals who are groaning under the burden of higher taxes and slashed public services! What a wonderfully inventive use, indeed, of taxpayers’ money at a time when Britain is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, to make us all laugh at such unbelievable idiocy!
And having made us all laugh fit to bust, the happiness index will accordingly shoot up! Comic genius, or what?
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