Yesterday's Observer's headline reads "£13 trillion: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite."
The Oxford English Dictionary describes an elite as "a group of people considered to be superior..."
If even the Observer considers these people to be an elite we are lost indeed. To me they are people who take but don't give. They have the nerve to rely on whichever country they happen to be residing in or where they own property to provide the infrastructure on which even they depend, but who don't want to contribute to the cost of its upkeep. They need the police, they need the roads to be kept paved, they need the sewers to work, they need the airports to function safely, they even need the state school system to provide minions who can at least read and write well enough to serve their needs. But they want the rest of us to pay for it all for them.
If we think they are an "elite" we contribute to the idea that it is money, not morality, which drives society.
This blog is a plea for common sense in public policy. Our leaders don't seem to have any. They just make daft rules for us to follow. We need to assert our right to use our own good sense instead of ticking boxes which can only say 'yes' or 'no'.
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