You never even called me by my phone

Christopher Luxon has managed to do what Labour never could: he has written the perfect Nanny State policy

You Never Even Called Me by My Name, as performed by David Allen Coe, is a stone cold country classic.
He gives us a couple of verses and a rousing chorus and then says

Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song and he told me it was the perfect country and western song
I wrote him back a letter, and I told him it was not the perfect countr…