Regular Sloggers will have seen me write over and over to the effect that privilege is nothing to do with outright wealth.

Privilege comes from having an advantage to which one is not entitled. Cue lots of emails and threads from people asking “And I suppose you want to be the one deciding about entitlement?” To which my response is, “If I had to, yes…if only on the grounds of having more commonsense and concept of true fairness than most”.

If you were to inherit huge amounts of money on the basis of genetic happenstance, then I’d say you have an undeserved privilege – and, in my experience, a huge millstone round your neck. So I’d drastically limit how much you could have.

If you arrived new as a refugee to Britain, and got an amount comparable with pensioners who’d always lived here, I’d call that an undeserved privilege as well.

At the moment, there’s a highly inaccurate email doing the rounds saying that the average pensioner gets £6000 pa and the average illegal immigrant gets £30,000. There’s a full explanation of why this information is total bollocks at this link.

First of all, an illegal immigrant gets nothing, on account of if they pitched up and claimed it they’d be rumbled, Guv.

But asylum seekers given refuge here don’t do too badly at all – as my self-compiled and bollocks-free version below shows: