jon14

This fallacy is not based on any published fact, never mind being axiomatic.

The conservative minister Grant Shapps, for it is he who kicked this off when he pronounced on "government figures" and that "some people" fell into this abusive category. The Daily Mail and Evening Standard later referred to figures around some 6000, but did not refer to the provenance or source of this figure.

As I have said earlier we cannot judge or condemn the individual tenants of these high earner homes as we know nothing about them or their circumstances.

Now it would appear they do not even exist in any substantial numbers.

For clarity I have also learned from experience not speculate in front of children about the existence of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy or for that matter, the more recent arrival from American shores, the Easter Bunny.