Selling Britain to the kings of bling

We must be mad to tolerate the gaudy fleet of Saudi gold cars that have invaded London.

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The golden fleet of Saudi playboys: "we must be stark, staring mad" to tolerate it

"While steelworkers in Port Talbot stare into the abyss, a Saudi playboy swans around London in a fleet of golden supercars." It's an apt snapshot of modern Britain, says Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail. Never has the gulf between the ultra-wealthy and "the common herd" been greater. At least in the old days the moneyed classes exercised restraint. "No self-respecting aristocrat or self-made beer baron would have been seen dead in a gaudy, gold-plated Lamborghini Aventador."

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