The lady in Cardiff Bay knows what’s good for you

Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood exemplified socialist thinking in the Assembly yesterday as she condemned Conservative politicians for encouraging people to become property owners by buying their own council houses.

The Conservatives would now like to extend this scheme to those living in housing association properties thereby enabling yet more people to get onto the property ladder.

I pointed out to Ms Wood that surveys consistently show that these ideas are popular with those who are the main beneficiaries. Back came the rather sinister reply “Sometimes, what individuals want is incompatible with the greater good”

Indeed! How silly of the Conservative Party to think that politicians are elected to serve the people and to carry out their wishes. Leanne knows only too well that we are greater beings who always know exactly what is good for are electors whether they like it or not.

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