tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-46146920823203518322008-05-10T12:34:00.000+01:002008-05-10T12:34:00.000+01:00"Simon Jenkins, Suzanne Moore, Charles Clarke and Polly obsessed about the uncouth comments from the co-conspirators and CiFers. They are the people. The people you don't meet at Hampstead dinner parties or in the village deli of your Italian villa."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Awww, come off it Guido, "we the people"?<BR/><BR/>Most of the people who comment here or on any other politics blog are total nerds, deeply obsessed with politics to an unhealthy degree, and most likely well educated and well paid. We ARE the elite. <BR/><BR/>Mr and Mrs Grockle from Anytown, West Midlands, don't sit down to read your blog and comment furiously in between trips to Iceland and Homebase.<BR/><BR/>I sympathise, but you make it sounds like the libertarian right is some sort of grassroots movement welling up from the people, whereas in fact it's a carefully nuanced intellectual position articulated by a small group of rich elites, like yourself.speedbird084noreply@blogger.com