'I believe that this Constitutional Convention represents the culmination of what I shall term the Absolutely Fabulous effect, for the republic is the by-product of the Absolutely Fabulous generation. For those who do not know, Absolutely Fabulous is a TV show where two middle-aged baby boomer women swarm around drinking copious amounts of alcohol, smoke pot and try to relive the hedonistic days of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the women has a daughter called Saffy who is about my age and is an infinitely studious and sensible girl who is enormously embarrassed by the antics of her mother and her best friend.'

'I believe the republic is the Absolutely Fabulous baby boomers' last hoorah, their last tango in Paris, the zenith of a generation who value style over substance, to whom touchy-feely kumbaya motherhood notions are more important than results. Whilst the baby boomer generation has made some achievements, like all great social movements, they have gone too far. So I cry out to Saffy and all those other Saffys out there in the spirit of youth rebellion: stand up to the Ab Fab generation, stand up to them and their vacuous republic.'

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