THE rich are at it again, whining that they aren’t allowed to be rich enough. Sometimes it’s hard to suppress an inner Robespierre - an implacable French Jacobin buried deep in the psyche who comes roaring to life when Marie Antoinettes start their rapacious bleating. The contemptuous, sneering, screw-you selfishness and shameless greed is intolerable.
We all have dark thoughts. Who wouldn’t feel revolutionary when multimillionaires dare threaten the Government that they’ll abandon Britain and move overseas if the Treasury raises their taxes a little?
The Government tells poor pensioners to freeze this Christmas. Child poverty is a cancer. The NHS is broken. Throughout my entire life, the rich got richer and the poor poorer. Yet these cowardly gluttons would happily see the rest of us continue shouldering pain, as long as their gilded lives stay golden.
Seemingly, a fair rate of capital gains or inheritance tax is enough to turn our oligarchs into refugees. There’s even firms out there helping these people skip their taxes and relocate overseas. Vampires assisting vampires. Gauleiters of greed claim Britain may lose nearly 10,000 multimillionaires this year.
For decades these people had it all: bail-outs, hand-outs. Most were born rich, some made a packet in the Darwinian world our politicians have created to help their pals and donors. Now, when a little heat comes near, they ready to up sticks and run. Who wouldn’t detest such louts?
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