Five On A Treasure Island
The Famous Five are a group of child-like politicians who have the sort of adventures most wannabe right-wingers can only dream about. In a world where tax cuts flow like lemonade, and champagne and caviar are the staple diet of every hedge fund manager arranged picnics, Liz, Kwasi and James, get together with Therese in their first adventure, Five On A Treasure Island: Britain Goes Bust. Therese is actually a girl who wants so desperately to be a boy she crops her hair and struts about doing boy things like smoking cigars and drinking. Their attack dog, Suella, joins the four chums and together they are set to have many exciting adventures.
Liz is the boss and her no-nonsense Head Girl persona is sometimes mistaken for arrogance. Kwasi has been described by his rich friends as a “useful idiot”. James likes to appear intelligent and caring but doesn’t always pull it off, whereas the soft-spoken Therese puts people so at ease they often fall asleep before she has finished speaking.
Armed with a Parliamentary majority, a sense of moral superiority and encouraged by their very rich city friends and a plentiful supply of hyperbole, Liz, Kwasi, James, and Therese, together with their dog Suella (who does a lot of very noisy barking) like nothing better than doing battle with the nasty “anti-growth" coalition, a group of very bad baddies. These despicable people want to break open the piggy bank of the very rich and take all the hard-earned pennies for themselves. Thankfully the Famous Five are not going to let this happen.
