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    Tony Benn "becomes a capitalist"

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7145781.ece

    Some clown on the Daily Politics just now has just opined that it's an irony that Tony Benn should invent something because it makes him a capitalist. Perhaps he wasnt't to know that Benn's pledged any profit he makes to Age UK, but there's something very bizarre about this attitude, also in evidence in the comments to this story.

    It's the close relative of the "X says he's socialist but he has earned a lot of money" thing. I can almost see that- if you believe in paying higher taxes on your earnings, there's a case for donating the excess you get under New Labour rates, maybe. Or take an average wage, like some union leaders and MPs do.

    But an inventor being necessarily capitalist, what on earth is that about?

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    Tony Benn "becomes a capitalist"

    The right are scared of people with altruistic socialist principles, and their way of avoiding the consequence of being a greedy acquisitive self-interested cunt is to say those with them are hypocrites.

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      Tony Benn "becomes a capitalist"

      I Googled for an image, but could only find David Cameron's version...

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