Taking an Interest

A brighter start to the day this morning, which allowed some pottering around on our little allotment plots.
By lunchtime the showers had started, and we hunkered down in Nosher's shed for much of the afternoon.
'I heard today that more building firms are laying off workers' Nosher announced as he passed me a glass of parsnip wine.
'If this goes on the idiots who rule over us will no longer be able to deny that we're in a recession' I replied 'something which almost every ordinary person I meet already knows.'
As we sat in our old deckchairs, kicked off our wellies and put our feet up on the dusty old shelf, we both stared morosely out of the window at the pouring rain.
'I reckon this may turn out to be one of the wettest Julys on record' muttered Nosher.
After listening to the news on the radio he turned off his old trannie and sighed.
'Interest rates stuck at 5%' he said, the despair clear in his tone 'when will these idiots understand that the most important thing now is not inflation but economic growth, and for that we need interest rates pushed down to at least 2%!'
'You're preaching to the converted here' I told him 'but democratic politics is now all about gaining power through seducing the electorate with fanciful promises or frightening them with imminent disasters such as rampant inflation. So Gordon the Moron wants to be remembered as the Chancellor and then Prime Minister who kept inflation low. Big deal, with the country in ruins all around him.'
Nosher gave me an approving look.
'Yep' he said 'taking the interest at 5% looks rather like taking the piss when the economy is going down the tubes.'
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