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[Smiler Brian]

It is the month of August; a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake.

It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. These are tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the only hotel, lays £100 on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the £100 and and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the £100, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the £100 and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the £100 and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute who, in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the £100 to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the £100 back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his £100, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism .

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the British Government is doing business today.