Pirates. Petulance. The Prefu. Who’d have thought the first official week of Campaign 2023 would deliver the makings of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical.
With the curtain finally up, the most anticipated all-singingall-dancing act was Treasury opening the government books. This is known, rather boringly, as the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update, or Prefu – an acronym pleasingly close to Snafu, or Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. The books have to be opened before a general election so that an incoming government doesn’t get a terrible shock when they open the fridge of our nation’s scungy flat to find that all it contains is a half-eaten pottle of yoghurt with somebody else’s name on
