Tuesday 10 August 2010

Peter and Mary Unavailable For Comment

UNCHARACTERISTICALLY, Peter and Mary have avoided my emails and calls this morning as I attempted to obtain their thoughts on the Daily Telegraph’s latest article.

Headlined: ‘Bounty hunters to cut benefit fraud by £1bn,’ it seems that Holly Watt, Rosa Prince and Robert Winnett have compiled the one piece that our two benefit system cheats had been dreading.

’Private agencies are to be paid by the Government to reduce benefit fraud,’ the Telegraph announced.

’Finance experts will identify welfare cheats by trawling through their records, household bills and credit card applications.’

And the authors also revealed that the agencies would get a ‘bounty payment’ for each fraudster they identify.

Peter reverted to drawing upon the old Saxon language on the one occasion he answered his mobile phone to me today. Roughly translated, he spoke on his and Mary’s behalf to decline any further interviews - and hope that nothing untoward would ever blight my further attempts at journalism.

He said nothing of my housewarming invitation being in the post.

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