Everyone has it in for the super-rich. They come over here in their private jets, buying all the best houses over £10 million, snapping up all the gaudiest jewellery in Bond Street, booking every table in the ghastliest restaurants in Mayfair and what do we give them in return? We give them our sneers and our jeers.
That hasn’t stopped them coming. We have more billionaires per capita than any other country. When you’re one of the 0.1 per cent (not the 1 per cent, by the way, who are just the households earning £160,000 a year) you probably don’t worry too much about sneers. But surely, you must notice them.
This minority must be aware that our politicians have picked up on the antipathy