That the poor are always with us is long acknowledged, and studied in the economics of relative poverty. The Nu-Speak of the economics of happiness merely allows yet more poseurs of the Labour party to clamber aboard the gravy train of nomenklatura profit while pretending to social concern and moral commitment in the Fabian style.
In truth there is a measure that would provide the greatest happiness of the greatest number in the socio-economic reality of England : an immediate and binding vote on the single issue of withdrawal from the European Union.
Referendums enjoy ambivalent status in our Constitution, even the savaged remnant that is left after the last 10 years, and it might well be safer to have a general election in which leaving the European Union immediately was a manifesto policy.
But if happiness is a serious criterion for policy pursuit, then more English people would be made instantly and considerably happier by casting their vote to leave, to leave now, and to restore English rule within England's borders than anything else in the world.
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Now you've done it !
(Watch the hit-meter climb)
They want 'a shift to a new perspective, where people's feelings are paramount' ND,
'The time has come to have a go- ..to rush in where angels fear to tread'?
Angels can be more courageous and clear thinking than they suspect in their Fabian condescension.
'A paradox at the heart of our lives' is there?
How about being in the European Union and heartily wishing to be out after being bamboozled into accepting the economic case for an economic and trade arrangement more than 30 years ago, and never consulted since?
There's a source of widespread unhappiness - what a paradox that its democratic removal is denied by those who diagnose the people's distress.
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