Doing A Henry Hazlitt on Gaza

By Richard

Every Chancellor of the Exchequer – the UK government chief of spending other people’s money – has a shadow.

It is cast over the lives of the citizens by the policies they enact.

It spreads from one Chancellor to the next, emboldening each successor to reach, with meddling claws, ever further, in pursuit of unwitting victims.

And Shadow is the name of his counterpart, the opposition politician who trails after him from House of Commons to TV studio, claiming everything he wants to do is wrong or worse, insufficient.