IN my lifetime I’ve experienced three versions of socialism; the Clement Attlee version, the Harold Wilson/Jim Callaghan version and the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown version.
As the latter comes to an end I detect that – although very different in many ways – they all have something in common.
As Winston S Churchill once said: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
I think he was right.
David Lacey, Durham.
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