A Mintoffian fossil’s view of the welfare state in 2015

Published: June 5, 2015 at 2:51pm

Her Flick, the Environment Minister and a fossilised legacy of the Mintoffian government of the early 1980s, has a novel view of what socialism means in 2015.

Needy families? Get those capitalist supermarkets to donate their close-to-sell-by-date tins. An ad hoc programme of charity handouts, that is, so that he and his cabinet henchmen can concentrate on the more pressing business of bargaining with camel-traders.

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