Apparently it’s Christmas Jumper Day, in aid of Save the Children. Looking around the Guardian’s newsroom, this doesn’t seem to have registered (though Monkey knows Harry Enfield likes to wear his on the beach), but the Mirror takes the occasion very seriously.
So seriously in fact that they couldn’t bear to see George Osborne miss out. The newspaper’s staff have made the chancellor a personalised Christmas jumper featuring a graph of fluctuating UK public cebt over the past four centuries.
Three public sector workers – transport worker Philip Lewis, teacher Lucy Lamberton and fireman Clint Riley – travelled to 11 Downing Street this morning to present their thoughtful gift.
The Mirror’s story reads: “The garish outerwear is suitably festive to fit in with the sea of Christmas puddings, reindeers and Santas on show today – but it also carries a serious message for the Tory minister: a graph of the fluctuating UK public debt across the last four centuries.”
It’s the thought that counts.
