The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG

David Davis

“Steve Richards, this papers  [sic]  political columnist, recently boiled Brownism down to one succinct phrase, it was about “making capitalism work for the poor”. Only the problem is that capitalism doesn’t work for the poor. It works to create winners and therefore losers. It’s the job of centre-left governments to ensure that accidents of birth do not blight the rest of people’s lives. The market is singularly ill equipped to carry out such a task.”

And why is the “Independent” so precious and touchy? Just look at the following:

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The comments are worth a scream or two, but then having read that threatening and customer-unfriendly screed in red just above here, in clear, I personally would not deign to post a comment on its site, even if they paid me. They either want traffic or they do not. Or perhaps they just want to pretend that the “centre-left” is still winning…?