David: Protecting people from their own incompetence is nothing new to British politics or culture. In the 1959 film, I’m All Right Jack, Fred Kite — a trade union shop steward brilliantly played by Peter Sellers — an incompetent factory worker is discharged. Kite marches into the employer’s office and indignantly declares “Incompetence is not a cause for dismissal; that’s victimization!”
What, after all, is state socialism but a system for losers? If losers, the unreliable, and the incompetent are not protected from the consequences of their shortcomings, how can the state continue to depend upon their support?
