Marmite

Britain is blessed with a lorra lorra very clever people, don’t ya think? They have the answer – one answer – to all our nation’s problems; it’s not ‘42’ but it’s equally as daft. If the problem is how to save the NHS, then tax the rich. Build more affordable homes? Tax the rich. Achieve net-zero? Tax the rich. Stop all sewage pollution? Tax the rich. Improve educational standards? Tax the rich. You get the picture.

Last week, Hubby and I boldly went where the cannons are aimed (but regrettably not armed) out to sea. They’re England’s finest antique military hardware: a symbolic repulsion of the huddled (m)asses of fit, fighting-age impoverished males fleeing for their lives, at a cost of thousands of pounds each in sink-ready deflatables, away from a safe, wealthy, democratic terra firma.