Monday
So exciting! Our lovely Cadbury bluey-purple manifesto is finally ready. The toll it has taken on Mr Letwin is horrific but Jed says a few months in the Austerity Room and he should be back to ‘normal’. (Our head of strategy’s finger quotation marks, not mine.) Mr Willetts jumping up and down with excitement at California-style referendums. Dave a bit cross-patchy about them. He says people had ‘bloody better not start demanding daft things like taking all the traffic lights down. What then, eh?’ Mr Letwin just squeaked. Our Leader also nervous about the ‘be your own boss’ idea. Keeps asking Mr Gove to explain how it won’t mean parents setting up schools that will be rubbish. Mr Gove says ‘N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no!’, but I don’t think Dave is convinced. ‘Am I gonna have any control around here once we’ve handed all the power out?’ ‘N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no!… I mean yes!’
Tuesday
Invitation To Join The Government of Britain is an instant soaraway success! In fact, according to Tom, who is analysing the initial BlackBerry download figures, it’s the most successful book with a long boring title since Vindication of the Rights of Women, whatever that was.
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