In addition to toying with the ideas of reintroducing slavery and burning at the stake, our Government is considering a change to the student loan scheme.
The latest wheeze would see the income level at which post-grads have to start repaying their loans fall from £27,295 to £23,000.
Critics argue, not surprisingly, that lowering the bar would make students from poorer backgrounds believe university was unaffordable but not everyone agrees.
Baker, Thatcher's former Education Secretary and chief slug, is now officially Britain's biggest dork having been enobled as Lord Baker of Dorking and he says he "strongly" supports lowering the student loan repayment threshold.
"Would-be students should realise the obligation they will be taking on," he said, stubbing a smouldering servant out on his orphanhair rug.
Dear Lord Baker,
I was pleased to hear you welcome moves to change the rules on when students will have to pay back their loans - AFTER hundreds of thousands have already taken them out!
Your support of retrospective action therefore makes it easier for me to give you some bad news.
I hope you realised the obligation you took on as an MP because, as a tax payer, I write to tell you I have decided that the hundreds of thousands of pounds, if not millions, you were paid was in fact just a loan!
Worse than that I'm afraid, I want it back a week on Thursday!
"But you can't do that because you're not an MP and no-one elected you!" I hear you belch. Well, neither are you anymore fishface and yet you've still been hoovering up my tax payments as a member of the House of Lords for the last 24 years! Oh yes, and I want that back as well!
Assuming this doesn't find you as it leaves me i.e. skint,
Reg.
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