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One answer to the recession
Dear Gordon Brown,
I have noticed, when travelling by rail, that quite a few people in your country tip rubbish over their back fences. Not just paper and bottles and household scraps, but old couches and fridges and an occasional car body. It is most unsightly, particularly for someone such as me who desires order and cleanliness.
My suggestion, should you wish to consider it, is to create work schemes whereby those corporate chiefs, money traders and investment bankers responsible for the current recession, are forced to do something useful by cleaning up someone else’s mess. It should not be hard to track down those responsible and set them to work, it would be a small price for them to pay for the chaos they have caused.
While at it, these people could scrub down the graffiti, not the street art, but the mindless scrawling that serves as little purpose here as it does at home in New Zealand.
I hope you will consider my suggestion as would make my holiday in your country much more satisfying and pleasant.
Thank you for your consideration,
Kaelene Churton
PS. I really enjoyed seeing your picture in the National Portrait Gallery. It makes you look much less dour and humourless than the newspapers say you are.