Initially a good idea

Acronyms, eh? Who’d have ‘em?

When I wur nobbut a lad in short pants and smog mask, we only had three – BBC, ITV and TCP. Mind you, we were very poor.

But kids today – they don’t know they’re born. Just look at the acronyms they have to choose from – SWAT, ASBO, YOI, CRB, TWOC, ITV – and they are just the criminal ones.

The trouble is, a catchy, user-friendly acronym is now a must for any organisation that wants to be taken seriously and, in some cases, for ones that don’t.

But, oooh my, we get so twee.

The tyrants who are apparently running this country love stuff like Ofcom, Ofwat, Ofgem etc, but when it comes to Foreign And Commonwealth Office, do we get FACOFF ?

Not a hope – it’s far too accurate.

So come, brothers and sisters of the revolution, let us act as one mighty sword to prick the balloons of pomposity (put than sentence in Google and see what you get) and make the case for FACOFF.

If the Government had any sense, it would see the error of its ways and instantly put the Immigration Office under FACOFF’s control so that, the next time the EU phones with the intention of asking if we can take another couple of million asylum seekers, whoever answers the call at our end simply announces the name of the department …


* Just in case you ever wondered, TCP stands for trichlorophenylmethyliodosalicyl. See – educating you as well !