I am sure this is not the worst tweet ever, as Ben Phillips of Action Aid suggested this morning, but it is definitely one of the most desperate:
And just for the record, never say they don't like being called neoliberals: they clearly do.
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Nasty
Evil
Obscene
Leeching
Imperialist
Brutal
Excruciating
Ruthless
Aloof
Loathesome
Injurious
Spiteful
Malevolent
I like it
Spot on, JohnM. And accurate – unlike the Adam Smith Institute version. But then again accuracy (not to mention transparency) is not something one ever associates with the ASI.
Well – I can’t top that.
JohnM – you da man!
I much prefer your version….did you not Tweet it?
That is more than desperate, a new low by trying to appropriate the word and divest it of its negativity – so low its touching magma.
probably a response to Corbyn’s more frequent use of the term in speeches.
Ah, the Adam Smith Institute – apparently populated by people who have never really read Adam Smith, and certainly not his Theory of Moral Sentiments. If he was still alive, he’d be tearing into them.
Though it can be good fun occasionally pointing this out to them after yet another of their claims
Indeed, I am coming to understand Adam Smith as an early opponent of landed rentiers at the beginning of a several hundred year long struggle.
The gentry hold less sway in these modern times, but from the 1930’s onward rentierism shifted from a land based to a finance based system as banks started giving mortgages to working class people to buy their homes from their landlords.
The Adam Smith Institute have dragged his name through the mud.
I need to read The Wealth of Nations and I note your reference to Theory of Moral Sentiments.
John M’s acronym would really get under their skin!
They seem to be populated by ideologues with no sense of humour or self-awareness. But then for ideologues thats probably tautologous
Let us instead sprinkle some kindness this morning, and venture that it was probably crafted with great enthusiasm by someone very very young.