Following Monday's discovery at HCP, I was pleased to see that yesterday's Queen's Speech trailed a new deal for pensioners. For £1,000 it is proposed to give a pensioner couple a year's access to all the nation's heritage. National Gallery, National Trust, Queen's Gallery, Ely Cathedral, Wisley, Kew, the Book of Kells, the lot. For £500 you can have any ten of them and for £250 you can have any five. To be overseen and deals issued by a new quango called OffCull, short for the Office for the Preservation of Access to Culture & Heritage.
While they are bringing this proposal to the boil, we can spend many a happy hour computing which of these deals will be best for us.
And not such a happy hour wondering how long it will before OffCull comes to abuse its soon to be commanding position over the pensioner world.
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