That is the ‘lockdown’ opinion of Julian Metcalfe who is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying, ‘’Society will not recover if we do it again to save a few thousand lives of very old or vulnerable people.’
Founder of food retailer Pret a Manger, Mr Metcalfe (60) was worth £215 million in 2019 (an increase of £51 million from 2018), according to the Sunday Times Rich List. He is obviously ignorant of the fact that it was the taxes and efforts of those ‘very old’ that rebuilt Britain after the war, financed the NHS, schools and everything else we have created in this country and gave him the opportunity to make his substantial wealth.
Maybe he doesn’t want another lockdown to preserve his millions.
Educated at Harrow, a very private school where the fees are currently £42,000 per year, he is probably among those targeted by Danny Dyer who says, ‘My one rant would be that we must learn now that the people who went to Eton can’t run this country. They’ve done it, they’ve tried to do it and this small group who all went to the same school in the same class, it doesn’t work.’