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Wanting to be wealthy and competent is dangerously right wing.

• happymellon 4y ago
  Wanting to be competent is definitely not right wing. Remember "we have had enough of experts"?
  • Veen 4y ago
    Because this is often tendentiously quoted without context, here's what Gove actually said: > “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.” His problem is not with experts, but with people who claim the authority of experts without the track record or ability to justify that claim, i.e. people who are wrong most of the time, but expect you to believe them unquestioningly anyway. I'm sure we can all think of examples.
    • happymellon 4y ago
      Yep. Gove for one. Truss? Essentially the current makeup of the Tories. They all claim to know what's best whilst making everything worse. I'm trying to think of any examples where reputable authorities made statements that the government followed because it was the right thing to do, and wasn't a made up group from a Tory sponsor who was parroting the party line, and it was wrong.