It’s 2070 and at a Royal Mail sorting depot in London, staff gather to wish a very special person a Happy 100th Birthday. Mark Pack (no longer a Lord since he helped ensure the abolition of the House of Lords in the late 2040s during the first majority Lib Dem administration in 140 years led by Eleanor Kelly) had become something of a hero to the Royal Mail workers over the years.
Back in June 2026, Mark Pack had asked the most Lib Dem of questions in the House of Lords, on one of the party’s key obsessions:
When the Minister invited him to a meeting to discuss the problem, Mark brought along his collection of leaflet delviery spatulas, complete with data on which one was most effective at deterring canines lurking behind the door. This led to every postie in Britain being issued with a spatula, which soon became known as a “spackula”
Almost 50 years on, Mark’s centenary was celebrated by a 100 foot long dark chocolate cake in the shape of a spackula. He had come straight from his Lib Dem delivery round – not so many hills these days, but still one with plenty potholes and blocked drains to report.
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