I like this take on Lord Young’s resignation:
Lord Young of Graffham had no choice but to stand down as David Cameron's 'enterprise tsar' having seriously embarrassed the Tory party by claiming that most people in Britain had "never had it so good" since the "so-called recession" began.
But while I'm no great fan of Young's politics, I must admit to feeling a little sorry for the bow-tied, multi-millionaire Thatcherite politician. After all, from his perspective, he was telling the truth.
The reality is that there is a chunk of British society that has never had it so good.
Cameron’s enterprise tsar exposed the inconvenient truth that a huge divide ahs opened up in Britain.
That divide has been deliberately created. And Cameron wants the lid kept on it.
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I think the description of all the public servants about to lose their jobs was most revealing, “they are within the margin of error.” In other words, Cannon Fodder.
Here’s another one telling the truth. Warren Buffet expressed a similar sentiment last night:
“…people like myself — should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.”
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/warren-buffett-read-lips-raise-taxes/story?id=12199889
“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on,” Buffett explained.