What theleveller said, supra. I agree with every word Richard Bridge has written.

Problem is, I am effectively disenfranchised. IMO you couldn't put a ciggie paper between Cameron and Brown.

In the UK since Thatcher got into power (and for all I know, long before then), you can vote for so-called "left-wing" conservatism, under the nom de jeu New Labour ; or you can vote for so-called "right wing Conservatism",

headed by Cameron.

(Oh, before I am taken to task, the juxtaposition of the closing quotation marks is deliberate).

As to someone's comments above on Grunwick, I was on the picket line - were you ? Mrs Desai is a working class hero. When she spoke at an antiNF rally in Manchester many years ago, Tom Jackson and some of his

big lads were there to protect her.

I look at New Labour, and the only satisfaction I can get is in the knowledge that it is not the party which I fought, and literally bled, for. I am, alas, too old for 'lumps' these days.

Stick around, please, Richard - your country needs you. Don't hand the fascist twits an easy victory.