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Originally Posted by pdurrant
She's strongly in favour of the welfare state, and of the rich paying taxes.
"I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr. Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty check. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism."
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That doesn't seem terribly controversial to me. She's saying that the state helped her out when she was down on her luck, and now she's doing well, it's her turn to pay it back. Good on her. How anyone could find that "abhorrent" I find a little puzzling.