Baron Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, with his estimated personal fortune of £300 million, believes people who challenge the myth of ‘more people working’ are talking ‘crap’.
Speaking at St George’s Hall in Liverpool the man ludicrously credited with saving the city after the Toxteth riots in 1981 (it was Dibdin as minister of the environment who slashed £100 million from Liverpool’s budget between 1979 and 1983) said there were “more people in work in this country today than any other time in our history”.
He said ‘the public sector has lost 400,000 people … but the private sector has created 1.5 million jobs’.
1.5 million corresponds with a conservative estimate of people ‘working’ in zero-hour non-jobs. He makes the bizzare claim that people want these jobs. Clearly he’s never had to hang about a bar all day and then told to work for an hour when it gets busy.
The Baron believes Cameron is doing a wonderful job in enriching the already obscenely wealthy at the expense of those who did not cause the economic crisis. Equally he is delighted at the £330,000 cut in Liverpool’s social provision being implemented by his protégé Joe Anderson.
That this aristocrat was given the Freedom of the City is a dark stain on a city with proud traditions of fighting to defend its ordinary citizens.
