“As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation.”
Humphrey Lyttelton
Just imagine walking into almost any private business.
“Morning mate. I’d like substantially more money, one fewer working day, no loss of pay, stronger protections against redundancy and if you don’t fancy it I might stop working altogether.”
Meanwhile Dave running a plumbing business is working six days a week trying to work out which new tax is going to kick him in the bollocks next.