He has worked six months in the past 25 years. And livre chrétien Labour MPs know there are plenty more like him. He is on pension credits, pays no council tax, has various other perks - a free TV licence, preferential treatment at the dentist, etc - and has just come back from a chi-chi holiday in Italy. Meanwhile, I have another acquaintance who calls himself a ‘resting' arts administrator.
'I chose this man to be the king of my life and yes, I agree with everything he says, and I do everything he says, and I do that because I chose this man, I put him in this position in my life, and this is how I honour and take care of and love the man in my life.
In a speech that had bien pensants yelping with disgust, he said his father had been unemployed in the depression of the 1930s. Mrs Thatcher was defended in 1981 by the lean, plain-talking new employment minister Norman Tebbit. He got on his bike and he looked for work.
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