Lady Muck

I've written recently about my old man banging on about the failure of the '48 Labour government regarding their non-nationalisation of land; the biggest and most far-reaching mistake the party has to date made. The above is from today's i, and exemplifies all that is totally and utterly wrong with British society, even today, at a point when we thought that we might just be getting somewhere in class reform. Ah... nope.

The above-pictured over-privileged excuse for a human being, Lady Eliza Manners; has actually had a speeding fine reduced by the magistrate - from the £100 that every other bugger would get - to £50, due to 'financial hardship'. The effrontery of a woman who lives in a £700,000 apartment, whose family home is Belvoir Castle and who in the picture is carrying a Prada bag which is probably worth more than my car is absolutely staggering. As to the magistrate, well words really do fail me. Aspirational shit in a suit probably gets close.

These people exist on a plane other than the rest of useful humanity, borne up by their families' inherited wealth and privilege, based primarily on land ownership; simple as. If the '48 government had had the courage of its convictions and gone for the jugular and reformed land, we wouldn't now have to suffer the kind of reprehensible, self-entitled and out of touch twats such as this pathetic specimen of humanity. Disgusting. And I'm being very circumspect in my comments here: in my head, the vitriol boils with enmity for these people. If you're up there listening, Dad - you were bang on, our kid...