This is a capital idea:

Senior military commanders, MPs and families of service personnel killed in war have lent their support to calls for an Armed Forces Day to be created.

Just the ticket, I think, for boosting morale. Sure, we can’t send them to war properly equipped and we can’t look after them properly when they’re injured and maimed. We can’t run the inquests or look after their families properly when their sons are killed. But let’s have a day to cheer them all up.

Can I be the first to divert this bandwagon slightly and also ask for a Coal Miners Day as well. And a Steel Workers Day. Call centre workers have a shitty time of it so how about one for them.

Credit card users and mortgage payers and other brave consumers of usury services deserve recognition as well. Let’s face it, without them this country is well and truly knackered.

We should probably add buy-to-let landlords to the list. God know, apart from illegal wars and corruption, they’re about the only thing this country produces these days.

Our brave boys might be fighting for democracy in Johnny Arab Land but docilely propping up Gordon Brown’s rickety reputation for economic competence is the real battle of our generation.