“I don't think employers are working people.” ~ Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP. And there is. A Labour government politician saying the quiet part out loud. This is what Labour really think. They have an inverted snobbery and disregard towards self employed workers and private sector businesses owners.

There are basically two ways of running any country or political system: One is socialist communism—all power to the state. The state does the planning and the people have to conform to the plan. The people are the pawns of the state. They have no human rights other than those granted to them by the state. To me, with my religious background, that was totally and utterly wrong. It denied the human spirit. The system which I believe in finds its most eloquent expression in the American Declaration of Independence: The state is there to serve the liberties of the people, their own spirit, and to develop their own talents and abilities. And so that the strong does not intimidate the weak, freedom is made to work by a rule of law. It is your duty to use your talents and abilities. It is your duty to accept responsibility because you accept freedom. You need private property for that; the property does not belong to the state. You have your own land, your own shares, you have savings, you have thrift. Out of that, it is your bounden duty to give to those less fortunate than yourselves.

October Kitchen 2026..🍽️

* @Caterertweets Ian McAndrew was a great chef and one of the leading pioneers in the renaissance of British gastronomy in the 1980s. He featured in Volume 1 of my two-book series Great British Chefs.