Colgate Quixote Rides (Again)

So there’s this day – Father’s Day – that David Cameron, leader of my erstwhile country, celebrated by tilting at what he calls ‘Runaway Dads’.

An RD is one who, having fecklessly sired offspring, vanishes into thin air leaving his complementary progenitor to pick up the tab.

Or, more likely, the state.

Society must, Cameron bellowed from the grandstands, ostracise these fiends. They must be considered as 'beyond the pale' as drunk drivers. So strident was his tone I was surprised not to see RDs strung up with rapists and murderers.

Good one, Colgate. Rhetoric aside, who would disagree?

Now re-aim your lance at higher targets. Start skewering instead the deficit, inflation, the NHS, unemployment, the police, education, the EU, Libya etc etc etc.

Stop twisting at every puff of a focus-group and do your proper job.

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