Cameron, Clegg and Miliband are on a plane. Cameron turned to Clegg and said: “You know, I could throw a £1,000 pound note out of the window right now and make somebody happy”. Clegg shrugged his shoulders and replied: “I could throw ten £100 notes out of the window and make ten people happy”. Miliband sniffed and said: “Don’t be mean, lets throw a hundred £100 notes out of the window and make a hundred people happy – after all, it isn’t our money anyway”. The pilot turned to his co-pilot: “Such big-shots, I could throw all three of them out of the window and make 60 million people ecstatic!

I was thinking it would make 60 million people more than ecstatic; but then such an idea would only feed their egos.