Lord Freud, the investment banker tasked with the job of
advising the government on how to demolish the welfare system, says that poor
people should take more risks since ‘they have the least to lose.’ He says it’s
a ‘dreadful system’ that permits the unemployed and sick people to have ‘a
lifestyle.’ Lifestyle?
It must be obvious to anybody with a brain cell that his
logic and his appreciation of reality outside his own rarefied circle are
effectively non existent. He appears to be another proponent of Mrs Thatcher’s infamous
desire for ‘a return to Victorian values.’ He’s about what you’d expect of an
investment banker, and I think we’ve had quite enough of bankers running the
show to last us several lifetimes. I wonder how much the taxpayer is paying him
to offer this invaluable advice.
Isn’t it reasonable to expect Lord Freud and his ilk to
stick to running their illusory, albeit lucrative, empires, and leave the philosophy
to those with a soul?
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