[usgroup]

Apologies but what money is spent on in the UK is public information —- it is part of the budget. The fat cat and the hoodwinked mouse is a poor metaphor.

[cassianoleal]

The pot in the parable is also public information - the mouse could have just opened the lid every now and then to check the levels.

It doesn't matter how public it is. It matters whether the public actually knows about it and understands it.