The Road to Tarsus was never so busy

Another day of sunshine, another day of blinding light and with it valuable insight into the directions we must all take. For the 605 illegals who turned up at Folkestone, the sunny weather had already guided them, but of course, for me, it always takes a little longer!

No sooner had I been visited by that dreadful old Greek Hermes The Careless, to tell me that the Gods thought Constitution Hill would go to Cheltenham, when Mercury turned up, saying that after some Madeira and a slice of seed cake, the decision was for him to take the Cup Road.

Tickety Boo and up popped another vision!

However, we had already spun off the road in order to get back to the Chateau d’If, so that I could polish up my CV for the soon-to-be-vacant slot of Chairman of the BHA, as Lord Charles has apparently decided to go back to the old “vent” act, there being no agreement between racing and Arena’s Racing Cruddace… sorry I mistyped… The RCA.

Surely I’m the only person left standing who hasn't either applied for or been offered the post. There were three on the latest inflatable at Folkestone who had turned it down for being too difficult. “It is easier to get a British Passport, a house and £1000 a week in benefits”, said Salim Khan, former head of the Tote at Mazar-i-Sharif’s Buzkashi Festival, who only left the country when he was caught trying to bribe the lead Chopendoz for the Badakhshan A team. Such is life up the Pass.

I’m also told that Rachel Reeves, supremely confident senior “Entrepreneurship Adviser”, Alexandra Depledge, may be moving on soon. Her very public blurt that, in her opinion, “…we do not need any more restaurants. I’m not anti-hospitality, but that’s not where my efforts are” was poorly received and who would have guessed. As the industry has lost over 100,000 jobs since the Oct 24 budget, and is losing four licensed premises a day, she won’t have to worry much longer.

She’s at the Treasury two days a week; so she’s probably there more often than many of the staff are; and has stated that: “If I have to choose a leader to champion high growth and balance our books, again, I choose Rachel.” The question some are asking is whether she was talking about her own company, RESI, which handles planning applications. It recently filed accounts showing accumulated losses of £16m on its P&L Reserve account. Rachel will surely have the skills to balance your books again!

She is another Bollinger Bolshevik and thus ideally suited to advise the last of the great self-taught economists on how to get the 16-24 age group of Brits, 20%+ of whom are Economically Inactive, back to work. Perhaps she can tell them how to be an entrepreneur like her.

Meanwhile, my man outside the BIOT Supreme Court also tells me that the direction of travel for The Chossians has become clearer, as there is now an injunction preventing their removal from their new Island settlement and allowing them to receive supplies by boat - at least for the next two weeks. That gives them time to proceed to a full Judicial Review.

I must now dash up North and get a dozen of my proxy votes in before 10. Having bought them on eBay for 50p each, it seems a pity to waste them.

I do so admire the new British entrepreneurial spirit.