SOLVING THE SERVANT PROBLEM

If Mrs Osbourne's comments are anything to go by, how long will it be before the minimum wage is scrapped or by-passed. She can always re-designate her staff as interns or apprentices or trainee assistant mansion managers. I'm really saddened that "like most mothers she worries about upsetting the cleaner." It's a hard life being a millionairess. It's comforting to know Marie Antoinette is alive and well and living in 11 Downing Street.

As the Tory led Coalition fight to grab recession out the jaws of recovery, even the out going Leader of the C.B.I. Sir Richard Lambert sees the writing on the wall. The newly Knighted Sir Dick, crowned Osbourne's misguided "politically motivated" cuts. He said "measures that cut spending but killed demand would actually make matters worse." His comments are refreshing, but has he lost his chance of a seat in the Lords? He seems just the right sort of material to me, on the basis of his Parthian shot. Well done old chap.

However could the devilishly cunning Tory plan be to drive down wage rates and increase unemployment to solve the servant problem. Perhaps Sir Richard is not in on the secret. I await events with interest.

P.S.What always perplexes me is how more poverty encourages the poor but that more wealth motivates the already filthy rich. I must admit that the logic of it evades me.