Property News · May 10, 2016

Let Tamara Ecclestone crow over her toddler’s £10k playhouse | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett


The super-rich are back, shouting about their wealth, while more than a million people in the UK live in destitution. Time to channel our anger into positive social changeIf the latest issue of Hello! magazine is anything to go by (let’s be honest, it usually isn’t), ostentatious displays of wealth are, following a timely hiatus, very much back. The super-rich went quiet there, for a bit, in the wake of the global financial crisis, but now, according to Tamara Ecclestone’s latest display in that venerable publication’s pages, we plebs can rejoice in the return of the Paris Hilton ethos, which can be adequately summed up: “Suck it, peasants.”So you can take the old adage that money talks and wealth whispers, and tear it up, because Ecclestone is crowing. Showing off her two-year-old daughter’s palatial playhouse – an exact replica of Ecclestone’s 57-room £70m Kensington mansion – in the midst of a horrific housing crisis can only suggest one of two things: ignorance or indifference, and neither are especially gratifying to those who, for a brief moment, will have taken succour in London’s rejection of a Tory billionaire for mayor in favour of the son of a bus driver committed to building more homes. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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