Filthy rich and claptrap
The UK should “celebrate the fact that people can be enormously wealthy in this country”, Business Secretary John Hutton is expected to say.
Fair enough, I suppose, if you go in for that kind of empty vulgarity. I’d be more comfortable with New Labour’s worship of the filthy rich if they showed the same respect for the dirt poor.
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
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They do have a terrible time of it, the wealthy, what with all that taxation and resentment. I really do wonder why they bother getting up in the morning.
Yes, I think, as a matter of urgency, BBC2 should produce a short season of programmes about this most oppressed of minorities.
That photo makes him look like a Dick Emery character.
I know I shouldn’t be lookist, God knows I’m pretty hideous myself, but have you seen him without his glasses? Yikes.
As Polly Toynbee has pointed out, Hutton is the latest in a succession of uber-Blairites who are all seeking to outdo eachother in out-Torying the Tories. Caroline Flint led the way with her call for unemployed council tenants to be thrown out on the streets, but I reckon Hutton’s paean to fatcats has superseded it.
Did she now? After all those years of telling us how wonderful NuLabour was, and how everyone just had to vote for them — and only them — lest the Tories win, she’s now concerned about them trying to out-Blair themselves? Too late for the conversion, I think.
Don’t worry, we’re mid-term. She’ll be back on board and touting her nose pegs soon enough.