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Friday, 19 October 2007

Don't understand moment

Mick Hume has a piece in today's paper on the subject of middle-class drinking, which is a matter quite close to my heart and the subject of the government's current search for a punch-bag.

Or perhaps quite reasonably the government's decided it is tactically non-astute to continue bashing the feckless underclasses when it is the welfare dependent who are most likely to vote for them if they can be drawn away from the telly long enough to actually participate in the electoral process.

On the other hand every government needs an villain and what could be more appealing to Gordy's rabid socialist uber-control freakery than the BMW driving classes of prosperous and leafy south-england.

If we'd all sober up and down shift then the level playing field could be achieved without the feckless having to shift themselves to actually do anything of their own accord and on their own behalf.

So it was perfectly reasonable in my opinion for Hume to take a swipe at the demonising of the non-sober middle-classes.

What puzzled me was his reference to speeding on the M25 (admittedly the wrong way). Everyone knows the M25 the ring 'road' that runs around London's outskirts is a glorified parking lot. Perhaps Mick's hard up and needs to be called back to provide another paid piece by way of explaination.

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