Don't mend NHS, give more to gazillionaires

THE pandemic’s been a nuisance but it’s been worth it. Over the last year, the wealth of billionaires in Britain has gone up 20 per cent to £579,000,000,000, which is £579billion, or what mathematicians call “HOW ******* MUCH?”

They must be sighing with relief, saying: “It’s been a tough year, but now things are opening up again, so at least we can go out to a café and on the way home buy St Paul’s Cathedral.”

No longer will they have to disappoint their children by saying, “I’m sorry darling, we can’t afford it”, when they’re asked for a simple birthday present such as Cornwall.

We’re lucky the extra money in society went to people who know how to look after it, because if it had gone to the Health Service, they’d only have frittered it away on nurses’ wages and ventilators.

A similar process has happened around the planet.