Well-intentioned politicians are of two kinds, those who want to help people directly and those who want to free people so that indirectly they can help themselves. The distinction may sound like a quibble, but it is not.
– paragraph one of a Telegraph piece yesterday in which Tim Congdon explains why from now on he will be voting UKIP (thank you Iain Dale)
Quote of the century if you ask me.
A few years ago that would have sounded reasonable to me. Today it reads like a multiple oxymoron.