Rich List rant

A copy of the Sunday Times in the office at work. This year's rich list has already been remarked upon (see below) butI noted one thing from the Sunday Times' Rich List blurb caught my eye. Beresford, the Rich List compiler notes, "In times of economic uncertainty, the gulf between rich and poor is rarely ignored by those looking for a convenient scapegoat."

This is cam on a lot of levels, of course. Firstly, the gulf between rich and poor can't be a scapegoat - because it is the problem. It would be scapegoating to attack the Sunday Times building for instance. In fact no bad idea. Secondly, it's not as if this issue is "convenient", it is right there in your face - it's not as if mentioning the soaring incomes of the rich and the robbing of the poor is to drag up some coincidence or some accident, like a chance happening in a film or a play. It is a deliberate policy choice whose consequences cannot be ignored. Even the Labour Party has beacked down on its 10p tax band robbery idea. Thirdly, inequality is not a topic that is ever ignored by the genuine left. It does get erased out of existence by the 'decent' stooges and comfortable Euston moment frauds, but it is not just in times of economic turbulence that inequalities get highlighted, they are there all the tipme and grind the life out of billions so a tiny elite can enjoy choosing fifteen different types of cruise holidays, luxury flights or silver gilded napkin holders or billions of other useless bits of shit that they fill their vacant lives with. Rich list? - hang 'em.