Jeremy Huntrhymeswyth looked in the mirror.
Great face! Unlined, smooth-skinned, punctuated with sparkling eyes (especially
when he looked at his own reflection).
Could be years younger than his real age!
His eyes roamed upwards. The hair. Was it time to stop using gel?
He’d been applying Snake Oil Hair Restorer
for weeks, which Beatrice, the receptionist at Thai Therapies (in Shepherd’s
Market, where he went each Friday for a power massage they called ‘Gentleman’s
Relish’), had given him with the assurance that it would solve his problem.
But it didn’t; like the retreating tide at
Frinton, it was stubbornly pulling back from his face, half a centimeter at a
time, its recession linked in an unnerving way with each step of the step-by-step dismantling of the bloody
National Health Service.
This was a major problem; Richard
‘horseteeth’ Branson was waiting at the wings flapping his Bank of Bermuda
cheque book, and at the other side, the fellows from The Lodge were murmuring
things about putting off his promotion to Grand Farolera.
He inspected his hairline carefully.
Transplant? Maybe, but Roger’s transplant, even though it had been done by the
top chap at Harley Street, reminded him of miniature rows of vegetables.
He’d tried to get Torquil to look into repealing
the Hippocratic Oath but Torquil had got back to him and said that it wasn’t a
law, it was an agreement between doctors that had nothing to do with law or
Parliament.
Moving away from the mirror, and the
slightly distressing reflection, a thought occurred to Huntrhymeswyth; it lit
up the dank parliamentary office like a light bulb.
If he could, in conjunction with that lab
in Surrey, develop a brand new virus that knocked out The Poor, The Unemployed
Shirkers, The Asylum Seekers, The Disabled and The Elderly, what a lot of money
that would save!
In the short term, they’d have to cough up
a bit to Murdoch to make sure that it got reported properly: ‘nothing we can
do’ and so on. And keep the United Nations out of it: mind their own business.
Of course it would cost a bit to ‘treat’
them all, but they could commandeer a few of the luxury flats that the Chinese
and Russians were pulling out of, now they realize that the London property
market is going to crash. Ship ‘em all to London and let the new Labour mayor
sort ‘em out; that will give him something to chew on, little upstart!
Cosmo in Statistics would be able to work
of the ratio of the elderly that the Tories need to keep going- maybe a
‘vaccination trial for elderly people only’, so as not to lose too many Tory
voters- ha ha!
Rubbing his hands with glee, Huntrhymeswyth
strode across the room to pick up the phone to call Budgets. It was time to put
the plan in motion, before anyone could stop him. A neat, white, rich UK
population of Tory voters within the next five years, and no need for social
anything any more.
Yessssss!
A gleam of light shone across at him from
the mirror.
With a sinking heart, he met the gaze of
two greedy, sparkling eyes that were peering back at him from the dome of a shining, and now completely bald, head.
1 comment:
I enjoyed that! Of course, you do assume that the man in the story does have a reflection.....
Shirley Porter, leader of Westminster council, heir to the Tesco fortune and Thatcher wannabee, did try something similar in the late 80's when she shifted labour voting council tenants out of marginal tory wards. The great jerrymandering scam. She got fined (I think) 21 million quid for that, but claimed poverty and got away with it (the joy of trust funds). One of the other councillors involved committed suicide as a result.
She also had centre armrests fitted to all council park seats to stop homeless people sleeping on them
and finally, she tried to evict the residents and then purchase a block of flats on the embankment that were there, via a deed of covenant, to house the working class of the borough on the basis that no working class people lived in westminster. The owner, the Duke of Westminster, told her to get stuffed.
Funny how Nathan Barley turned out be true.
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