The Problem With Socialism

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Trade Education The Politics of Culture

There's more than a good chance I have told this old joke here before, it was told to me by my father when I was a lad after visiting 'Speakers Corner' in Hyde Park. A Socialist speaker, standing on his soap box addressing the gathered throng shouted out: "When my party is in power you will all have lots of money". A little chap at the back of the ...