Tuesday 7 September 2010

The loud and troublesome insects of the hour

Dan Hannan quotes a wonderful passage from Edmund Burke talking about the silent majority:

Pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

His point, as ever, the arrogance of unelected bureacrats who rule in our name.