Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill nobody | 3 January 2009

Tamzin Lightwater's New Year’s Resolutions

issue 03 January 2009

Tamzin Lightwater’s New Year’s Resolutions

Here they are, my New Year’s Resolutions for 2009:

1. Keep job. Make self indispensable to Dave, thus ensuring that should the axe fall again on the Tory nerve centre as Britain plunges ever deeper into recession, Yours Truly will be last person Jed thinks of when he’s trying to make savings, and not just escape redundancies cos am the only one here who knows how to restart the cappuccino machine, which is running a limited service only, by the way — no chocolate sprinkles until further notice due to Compassionate Cutbacks.

2. Devise responsible yet headline grabbing fiscal stimulus. Gids’ and Mr Letwin’s proposals on the economy, while brilliant, just aren’t making headway for complicated reasons to do with voters mistakenly thinking they’re a load of rubbish. What puzzles me is, why has no one found The Big Idea? How hard can it be to come up with something slicker than Gordon’s plans to plunge Britain into a gazillion pounds worth of debt? Am sure can think of something.

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