The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: ‘Over-55s \’causing holiday havoc\”.

How wonderful that the world is now such a safe place that the Foreign Office has the time and resources to give holiday advice. Has Tony Blair already fixed the Middle East then? Has the Taliban finally surrendered? Is Al-Qaida smashed? Was President Bush’s celebration of victory in Iraq to be taken seriously?

It would not occur to our Roundhead masters that middle-aged holiday makers might get over-exuberant on holiday as a reaction to the grey, oppressive atmosphere of health-and-safety obsessed Britain. Even so, what do they think they are doing opining on such matters? Do they accept no boundaries to their imagined remit to run our lives? Do they have no fear that involving themselves in such things may cause taxpayers to twig that they don’t have a real job?

Surely you don’t have to be a libertarian to think that the costs
of employing officials with nothing better to do than this could be
usefully saved?