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Hugo Rifkind

Lefties should cherish trendy London while they still can

Let ‘champagne socialist’ become a slur, and you give a free pass to those who want to drink it all themselves

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

London is a bad thing. Everybody knows this now. Britain has had enough of London. Ed Miliband failed in part because he was ‘too north London’ (euphemism) and Chuka Umunna would fail just the same because he is too south London (euphemism). According to one commentator, Britain’s capital is now a ‘Guardianista colony’; filled with the ‘petty moralism’ of the ‘cultural’ elite.

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