We're Not Going on a Summer Holiday

So we should all take our holidays in the UK. 'Staycations' are the new Costa del Sol. At least, that's what the government is telling us. Apparently, it's all in aid of boosting the British economy in this time of austerity. Everyone going to Blackpool or Skegness and buying an ice cream, a stick of rock and a 'Kiss Me Quick' hat will get the economy back on its feet in no time - much quicker than any direct economic stimulus by the government. I bet Gordon Brown is kicking himself, wishing he'd thought of that, rather than going to the expense of bailing the banks out. This one ranks up there with Cameron's exhortations for everyone to pay off their credit card bills to pay off the deficit. We clearly have a government full of economic geniuses.

Call me cynical if you like, but I suspect those government ministers encouraging us to stay at home for our holidays have an ulterior motive. Personally, I think that hey just want to make out sure that they and their fabulously wealthy banker friends don't have to risk rubbing shoulders with the lower classes when they're on their foreign holidays. I mean, if you were them, would you want to risk bumping into some horrible oiks from Scunthorpe, who actually have to work for a living, as you stroll down the beach in Barbados? Or risk the possibility of encountering your children's maths teacher on the ski slopes in Austria? Obviously not. Of course, it's all part of their wider plan to re-establish what they see as the proper social order - where only the 'right' sort of people go on foreign holidays, whilst the rest of us plebs have to be satisfied with a couple of hours in deckchair with a knotted hanky on our heads during a works outing to Littlehampton. I daresay that once they've completely asset-stripped Greece and personally own all of the good holiday resorts and islands there for their private use, the wealthy bastards might make a few concessions and allow the rest of us to go as far as the Isle of Wight on holiday.