Grouch Marx' reply to today's quote of the day

I included today's quote from the "Iron Chancellor" Prince Otto von Bismarck because I thought it is very relevant to the current arguments about you-know-which subject and one that all MPs would do well to bear in mind.

However,  Groucho Marx had a reply to Bismarck which was meant as a joke but has an embarrassing amount of truth in it ...



This quote summarises perfectly the reasons why, whatever things the Conservative party may get wrong (and all parties get things wrong) I will remain until I die a small-government conservative.

A government which concentrates its energies on the most essential things, especially those that only a government can do, has a chance of getting some of them right. A government of whatever party which tries to fix every problem it can find will end up by acting exactly as Groucho Marx described.

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