Here is another installment of the great Manichean Melodrama that Mr. Will produces regularly, in which the primary protagonists are a Virtuous Capital and an Evil Government, and the necessary Conservative political actors to animate the proceedings. The permutations of this perennially told tale are many and varied, always sounding the central theme that Mr. Will cannot emancipate himself from, although he would never try. But the setting is new, London, and he focuses on George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a central actor and protagonist in this particular episode, that might be aptly titled Dismantling the Welfare State. But let us not forget Mr. Osborne’s impeccable ancestral credentials, as part of the titled nobility with an equally impressive education at the best schools and a large cash reserve. Nothing appeals to Mr. Will like good breeding, education and a Conservative political disposition, after all Mr. Will’s great political hero is Edmund Burke. So he might be considered an Anglophile with discriminating, even faultless political tastes: one could argue that Mr. Will fancies himself an American aristocrat, if such existed. Mr. Will even demonstrates his credentials as an aristo with a cutting aside on the rioting rabble of London and the facile Liberals who manufacture excuses for their destructive actions, while genuflecting to Mr. Osborne and paying obeisance to the notion of Austerity as the way toward a brighter future, for some.
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