David Cameron’s one law for the rich shows he doesn’t understand the British

The great historian of the Soviet Union Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics reads:

‘The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.’

I have tested Conquest’s law on every bureaucracy I have covered, and it has always held up: nowhere more so than in the case of the British Conservative Party. The only way to explain it is to assume that agents of the Left, determined to lead it to destruction, have seized its leadership.

The Conservatives are entering a tight election with one heavy burden. The public see them as the party of the plutocracy. On its own this would not be such a handicap. Very few people just hate the rich for being rich. They will accept them, if and only if, they abide by the same rules as everyone else.