Department for Wonkery
Bring me my hotline of burning gold
A big thumbs-up from everybody here at Westmonster to those clever chaps at Demos who will not rest until they've brought about a New Golden Age of democracy in which we've all been winched out of the pub in order to engage in citizens' juries, community budgeting, text message voting, and ... you know. That trendy Power Inquiry stuff.
The latest idea - mooted in this pamphlet - is telephone hotlines for da yoof to use when adults try to stop them playing outside. Like, totally groovy dude! Play to the orchestra, think outside the envelope, and so on and so forth.
But, we hear you cry, who'll the Government employ to take these calls? Well, if the bloke who manned the cones hotline is between jobs, we reckon this one would be right up his street.
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