I'm proud to say that I invented the acronym SWINE (Scotland, Wales, Ireland (Northern), England) yesterday afternoon. After posting it on the Telegraph's site under the name Dick Cleggaron, it has already seen rapid uptake in the parlance of the chattering classes after only 24 hours or so.
Seriously though, it is meant to elucidate the dreadful state of the UK's public finances. It's easy to go on and on about the PIGS, who are in a terrible mess, while carrying on as if life is a dream on Britain's sceptered island. Yet naming the UK as SWINE will hopefully make everybody wake up to the immensely precarious cliff edge that Britain's economy is racing towards at breakneck speed. The SWINE Britain is equal to and no better off than the PIGS.
Perhaps, if this acronym gains common usage across media outlets, it will focus the minds of the people and the economic leaders to take swift action to clear the deficit in the lifetime of this parliament. Let us hope that the esteemed coalition and its newly formed leader Dick Cleggaron pass by.
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