These wistful jottings must not be seen as being prompted by envy. I am sure I eat better and drink more than any of them. My only point is that it is unreasonable, to expect our politicians to produce a solution to inflation, any more than I would expect to do so myself. We must all look within ourselves. Lying like an immense mountain of lard on the Mediterranean shore after the sort of bouillabaisse which I honestly believe would have killed half the front bench, I feel that I am beginning to come to grips with the problem. In the newspaper over my face Dr. Stephen Haseler has written: “Unless inflation is soon controlled by courageous and responsible men then the very institutions that national, democratic, vote-seeking politicians rely upon to sustain them in power will simply no longer exist.”
Poor old Fred Peart. No more luncheons in Lancaster House with his genial opposite number from New Zealand? But what can we courageous and responsible men do to sustain the democratic, vote-seeking politicians we love so much? No politician dares suggest anything, but Dr. H. R. Pitt FRS,
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