George Osborne has already achieved a lot in his austerity drive – now dystopian sci-fi only has to be set 18 months in the futureWith Labour in disarray, the Tories are now free to focus on their real opposition: the common good. Today’s emergency budget, we’re assured, will turn us into One Nation. Unfortunately that nation is Greece.There’s a lot of projection among our elites. Perhaps they have to imagine the people they prey on as having their own worst qualities, so currently we hear a lot about scroungers and parasites and frauds, as a class of yacht-owning, show jumping, off-piste-skiing, incestuous monsters projects the shame it feels at its own greed on to a population whose idea of decadence is probably bath bombs. Continue reading...
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