The Allegations by Mark Lawson

Author:Mark Lawson [Lawson, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Picador

A Theory of Domestic Economics

When the girls were something like seven, Ned, driving them back from some treat, stopped on a double yellow to use a cashpoint. Alert to the threat from traffic wardens and kidnappers, he remained half-turned at all times, watching the car.

When he returned, there was no ticket or ransom note attached to the windscreen But, safely back in traffic, Phee, always the worrier, piped from behind him: ‘Daddy, why do the banks give you money?’

‘Well, muffin, they don’t really give it to me. I have money in the bank and that machine – what people call a “hole in the wall” – is one of the ways of getting it …’

‘But where do you get the money from?’

‘Well, Daddy is a teacher, like Miss Sharp, but to much older girls and boys. And the university – which is a sort of very big school – pays him for that. And Daddy also talks on television and radio and other people give him money for doing it.’

But, put like that, the economic system sounded ridiculous and flimsy and clearly unsustainable. Ned suddenly felt like a banker watching a frenzy of selling on the screen.

‘So,’ said Dee with her soft solemn voice. ‘When you say you don’t have enough money to buy us a horse, you could just talk more?’

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