JONATHAN AITKEN, at the centre of the latest sleaze allegations, is a millionaire.
He lives a life of luxury, including stays at the £1,000-a-night Ritz Hotel in Paris, for which he assures us he paid the bill himself.
He is a member of John Major's cabinet, where he sits with other millionaires, who also live lives of luxury.
But Mr Aitken is also Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and with co-thinkers Peter Lilley (Social Security Secretary) and Michael Portillo (Employment to destroy the welfare state. between them. Aitken, with back on pensions, sick pay and benefits for claimants; and 2.6 million unemployed off the low-paid and part-time jobs.
They all have a common purpose: to cut welfare state provision far enough to enable Secretary), a key player in moves They divide the responsibilities Chancellor Kenneth Clarke, holds down spending on social security, health and education; Lilley cuts Portillo devises ways to throw the register and press-gang them into Clarke to offer new tax cuts in the hopes of buying another Tory election victory.
This is government by millionaires. for millionaires - at the expense of tens of millions of working people. It's worse than sleazy. It's capitalism.
To fight capitalism, we need an alternative.
That's why Socialist Outlook supporters are campaigning in defence of the welfare state, and fighting in the Labour Party and in the unions against Tony Blair's retreat from Clause Four.
Join us. Michael Howard helps police with their inquiries Angela Rumbold Neil Hamilton A WORLD IN CRISIS "SOCIAL Labour's new poverty plan -page 4.
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