Friday, March 30, 2012

Owen Jones, in an article for today's Independent

And still the attempts at class war continue.

Owen Jones, in an article for today's Independent, argues that a small clique of privileged people are running the United Kingdom:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/owen-jones-were-now-governed-by-the-political-wing-of-the-wealthy-7601024.html

He seems unaware of the fact that to the average person in a queue in a Greggs bakery the Oxbridge-educated writer Owen Jones will be a privileged "toff" who doesn't have a proper job.

He also refers to The Sun being a "loyal Tory rag" presumably oblivious to the fact that for about fifteen years it was a loyal Labour rag, and when it changed sides in about 2009 the Labour hierarchy was so enraged we saw on the news a trade union leader ripping up a copy of The Sun in a fit of pique to the cheers of a Labour supporters.

It would have been more convincing to have ripped the newspaper up before it had changed sides.

In any case the support of The Sun is a curse, not a blessing.

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