If David Seymour were a circus ringmaster, there would be no nets below the trapeze artists to protect them. But there would be plenty of vibrant tigers to incentivise them.
Loyal readers will be familiar with the part played in the Thursday School Journal by Seymour, the boy with his hands in his trousers always trying to work out what the other children in Room 13 are doing so he can follow them rather than his own instincts.
ACT's Real Change Budget, released yesterday, casts David Seymour as an altogether more upright and clear-eyed sort of fellow.