Oliver Kamm has confessed on the Internet, in a truly bizarre article that CapX published for a laugh, to having once faked a death threat in a cack-handed attempt to pin it on me. In fact, I am most grateful for that article. It will do no end of good.
Anyway, bored as only inherited wealth can make one, Kamm has today joined the ranks of those tiresome little people who insist that Aneurin Bevan never said, "The NHS will last for as long as there are the folk with the faith to fight for it."
That one is always the sign of people who hate the NHS, and who hate the people to whom he did say it. He said it repeatedly, even habitually, to the South Wales miners, and they put it on banners and so on even while he was still alive.
Some London playwright or other eventually got it off them, but who cares? Avoid at all costs anyone who ever tries to tell you that somehow he made it up. That is the textbook definition of the metropolitan liberal elite. It is the mark of the enemy, and the enemy must be destroyed.
Anyway, bored as only inherited wealth can make one, Kamm has today joined the ranks of those tiresome little people who insist that Aneurin Bevan never said, "The NHS will last for as long as there are the folk with the faith to fight for it."
That one is always the sign of people who hate the NHS, and who hate the people to whom he did say it. He said it repeatedly, even habitually, to the South Wales miners, and they put it on banners and so on even while he was still alive.
Some London playwright or other eventually got it off them, but who cares? Avoid at all costs anyone who ever tries to tell you that somehow he made it up. That is the textbook definition of the metropolitan liberal elite. It is the mark of the enemy, and the enemy must be destroyed.
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