{"id":134249,"date":"2023-01-26T00:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/greedy-tories-that-rings-a-steve-bell-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T00:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:50:01","slug":"greedy-tories-that-rings-a-steve-bell-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/greedy-tories-that-rings-a-steve-bell-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Greedy Tories? That rings a (Steve) Bell | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nConservative plutocrats | Politicians\u2019 replies | Allotment radicalism | Tory ethics | Wild-camping Wombles?Re Polly Toynbee\u2019s article (Zahawi, Sunak, Johnson: this is rule by plutocrat. It\u2019s like a stench that\u2019s worse each day, 23 January), I used to put Steve Bell\u2019s cartoons on the kitchen wall day by day. I stopped on 21 January 2011, with his skewering of David Cameron as an inversion of Marx, saying: \u201cFrom each according to their vulnerability, to each according to their greed.\u201d I despair that I still have no need to change it.Sue JolleyAltrincham, Greater Manchester\u2022 Politicians have no need for a chatbot to reply to members of the public (Letters, 22 January); they have staff to do that. Working at the Department of Trade in the 1980s, part of my job was to draft replies for the minister. The recipient of one letter I had drafted complained later that it was a \u201cmasterpiece of non-answer\u201d. When my boss saw this, he congratulated me on having \u201ccracked it\u201d.Sue FirthNorth Hykeham, Lincolnshire Continue reading…
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