How to Be a Socialist

How to be a socialist in 2009 without actually ending up piss poor and starving to death.

A union baron and his cronies tucked into a banquet costing about £100 a head after calling for a crackdown on the super-rich at the TUC annual conference.

Derek Simpson, leader of the giant Unite union, and his colleagues enjoyed a lavish dinner that included veal, venison and Cumbrian beef at one of Liverpool’s top restaurants.

The party of ten, who took the best table in the restaurant in the city’s gentrified Hope Street quarter, started with cocktails before washing down their meal with wines costing up to £40.

Mr Simpson himself quaffed a fine red. Earlier in the week, Mr Simpson, 64, a well-known critic of ‘fat-cat spivs’ and bankers’ bonuses – despite himself earning about £100,000 a year – led calls at the TUC rally for new help for hard-pressed working families.

He said: ‘Over the years, working families have funded tax concessions for big business and the super-rich. Now it’s payback time.’

He's a cunt. And while Unite pays all his expenses for him, such as £400-a-night and £220-a-night hotel rooms, I shouldn't think "taxing the rich" is likely to bother him all that much. But then again, if he's as for the working classes as that snot gobbling, pant pissing, unelected, one eyed, pill popping, insane cunt of a Prime Minister is, it won't be the super rich that suffer as he says.