Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
On a more amusing note........ Those of you who seek revolution might be surprised to find Murdoch leading you. The sock cooker is a committed republican with zero tolerance for royalty or aristocracy. One of the reasons I'm a big fan of the monarchy. My enemy's enemy is my friend etc.
Well of course he is - just like Thatcher was reputed to be. The irony is that the inequality of opportunity created by his favoured type of laissez faire market-knows-best capitalism reduces social mobility. It allows the wealthy (which must include the aristocracy) to get a larger slice of the pie to build a greater war-chest to pull the levers of patronage and privilege by schooling, inheritances, internships and trust funds. IMO of course!
In my view, the unintended (or perhaps intended) consequence of Thatcherism that Murdoch and DM hacks much admire, is that rather than creating a thrusting, confident, entrepreneurial working/middle class that would clear out the privileged deadwood - as the rhetoric implied - it mostly benefited the old school tie brigade.
Still, I do agree with him on the Monarchy.