It’s time to end this sneering at success
WHY are so many people against success? I’m staggered by the number of bitter and twisted idiots who condemn those who achieve. I was watching Jeremy Vine the other day (just to see how much more of my act he’s copying now).
He had that lefty journalist Owen Jones talking down to my old friend Charlie Mullins, who recently sold Pimlico Plumbers for well over £100million.
Owen was not only rude and patronising but made me realise that socialism will never ever work because all socialists seem to want is for everybody to be the same.
Well thank God we aren’t. If we didn’t have people like Charlie, like Ryman and Robert Dyas owner Theo Paphitis – or like anyone on Dragons’ Den for that matter – who actually decide that they want to achieve as much as they can and to employ people, then no one would have a hope of improving their lot.
And then, for his enterprise, Charlie gets smacked in the face by Owen’s banal comments such as “Why should you live off the backs of the workers?” Workers? It’s a term I have never understood. What are people like Charlie if not workers? And damned hard workers at that.
If it were not for people like Charlie and others, all those “workers” probably wouldn’t have such decently paid jobs because you often find the self-made business people pay far better and look after their staff much more than the distant, faceless conglomerate employers from overseas.
British entrepreneurs – people who started as plumbers and carpenters, electricians and builders, makers and providers – who then realised that they could give jobs to others to do the same should be applauded, not put down.
We have to get over the jealousy in this country of people who do well, and we have to give up this whole stupid idea of the class system.