Polly ToynbeeFreedom and Whisky has a great characterisation of a Polly Toynbee event at the Edinburgh Book Festival. I felt a bit like he did when I went to the Monbiot event. 'Polly said that inheritance tax “gives to those who have”! A slip of the tongue, perhaps? She told us of when she had been covering George Bush’s election campaign and he had called for the “abolition of the death penalty”. A scoop, thought Polly. But no. GWB meant that he wanted to abolish America’s inheritance tax. Polly proclaimed to the audience: “Imagine calling inheritance tax ‘the death penalty.’” “But it is,” I shouted out. Four hundred angry leftists stared at me.'
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