We all say, 'Naughty!'

If the leaders of Britain's two and a half main political parties are looking for a new speechwriter, children's writer Michael Rosen (best known for We're Going on a Bear Hunt) seems to have the knack of puttiing the all-party political and economic Plan A (there is no Plan B) into words everybody can understand:

We're in trouble at the moment. Every single one of us. But why? It's simple. Poor people are too rich. Many of them work in places like hospitals and schools. This has brought the world economy to its knees.

Rich people have told us they need more money so what we're doing is rolling up our sleeves and taking money from the poor people and giving it to the rich people. Then the rich people will roll up their sleeves and save the world economy.

Of course there is a tiny minority of rich people who do bad things. And we take this very seriously indeed. We say to them, 'Naughty!'  And I'm pleased to say that even the Labour Party - who brought the world economy to its knees - are saying much the same thing. We all say, 'Naughty!' So no one accuse us of not taking this matter very seriously indeed.

There's your problem in a nutshell; poor people are too rich. Quick, give that man a job, while there's still time for him to e-mail a keynote speech over to Davos!

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