To Boris, regarding the rich

Boris Johnson is not the least controversial mayor London has seen. Hell, he's not even close to the most controversial mayor currently sitting (Rob Ford, Rahm Emanuel and Michael Bloomberg spring hastily to mind) but something he said recently made me do a proper double take. Boris said that the wealthy are a put upon minority, "like the homeless or Irish Travellers".

What?!

Aside from the tactlessness of the statement, it's at its heart untrue. Last time I checked, rich people don't sit on the street asking people for a few coins. In fact, I do believe rich people live indoors, with heat, air conditioning, fridges, and big soft beds. And lasts I checked, rich people don't have to move about the country to find work, living in campsites all the while, with people refusing to do business with them because of superstition and racism. In fact, when rich people have children of a different complexion to them, nobody says a word. Travellers, of course, are assumed to have stolen the child from its bed. 

Now of course rich people have bad things said about them. That's undeniable. I've said some of them. It's only natural when the world's economy crashes into the sea and begins taking on water, affecting everyone except the people who were in the pilot's seat. The difference is, if rich people don't like something said about them, they can do something about it. 

If I am called a bad person in public, or things I've done which have harmed people are called to light, my only recourse is to say, "nope," and hope people listen. Rich people in the other hand can write columns in national newspapers, go on TV and radio, and even hire other people to do these things for them. So I have a proposal for Boris, as well as any billionaire who wants to take it on:

Send me £10,000, and I will write a glowing mini-bio of you. I'll publish it here, as well as shopping it around to any publication you want to have it. Regardless of how I may feel about you personally, professionally, or grammatically, I will write nothing but high praise. By the time I am finished, people might not think you're Jesus, but they might believe you're related. 

Hopefully this will help to mend the feelings of the put-upon minority that is the Wall Street and City mega-rich. 

Been awhile.

I need to write, and so here we are again.