Open hypocrisy

Left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbot has criticized Tony Blair and other members of her party for sending their children to private schools.

Surprisingly, as the BBC reports, Abbot has now decided to send her son to a private school at a cost of £10,000 a year. On Sunday, in an interview with a UK newspaper, she said:

Private schools prop up the class system in society.

It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school.

Asked about the mismatch between her political position and her private behavior, she said:

I just don't possess that level of principle.

Obviously.