The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Case study: The £120,000 couple

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Link: Case study: The £120,000 couple – Telegraph.

The Telegraph is supposed to be a Conservative paper, but this feature today reveals how socialist thinking has penetrated British souls. Wealth is not a high wage, but enough capital to produce an above average income. "Shopping at Waitrose" does not equal wealth and "driving an Audi" (a rather boring German car, beloved of the poor in spirit) certainly does not.

My secretary in Russia employs a nanny and aspires to a second home in the country. She will certainly achieve it. The poverty of Britain’s aspirations after 60 years of state socialism makes me weep.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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