The left’s favourite ‘economist’, Gary Stevenson, is having a shocker. His new Channel 4 documentary, How to Get Filthy Rich With Gary Stevenson, is apparently so dire that even The Guardian has branded it an ‘embarrassment’.
The former City trader has fashioned a new career for himself as a whingeing lefty, forever harping on about the need to impose a two per cent wealth tax on everything anyone owns above £10 million. To be fair, the documentary sounds rather hilarious. Mr S hasn’t yet watched it, but the reviews – and clips circulating on social media – suggest it is essentially a 90-minute compilation of Ilford-born Gaz being told, time and again, why his big idea is moronic, only for the so-called economist to fail to mount a single convincing comeback.
In one particularly joyous clip, Stevenson is schooled by Labour-affiliated tax expert Dan Neidle on why his wealth-tax wet dream is ‘populist claptrap’ and a non-starter. After explaining that the policy would kill off desperately needed foreign investment in Britain, Neidle informs him: ‘You are unable to separate your emotional reaction to inequality with a rational assessment of the best tools for it.’
Should you be in need of a laugh on this hot summer’s eve, the documentary is available on Channel 4 streaming now. But Mr S can quite understand why Spectator readers may have far better things to do. For a programme about getting filthy rich, it seems to have left its star looking rather poor.
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