Does anyone actually think of these people as Robin Hoods, even in the privacy of their own minds? Or is the journalist just making shit up in order to create a hook for his article about how rotten some people are?
I’m not saying it’s impossible to twist the “Take from the rich, give to the poor” that is the elevator pitch of the Robin Hood myth to the point that everyone on welfare is better off than them, even when there are people sleeping rough on empty lots and busking for change on street corners visible for all to see. But are the New Merry Men how Cameron got a second term, or was that not just down to a bunch of less generous folk who nonetheless have enough self-awareness to know that they aren’t Robin Hood?
