'the striking miners of Scargill's time'

no mention of Scargill himself. Read more carefully.

Do you really imagine you would have anything like the standard of lving you enjoy wthout the Labour movement in England.

I respect Chuchill's sagacity - the recent series on TV about the influence of John Churchill his ancestor on his tactical thinking in the war, was brilliant. But as my father said, 'people talk about his sacrifices....but the most useless, laziest footsoldier who died in the apalling circumstances that people died in battle, gave more'.

Churchill said after the war that the NHS was unsustainable, unworkable and unrealistic - he wasn't always right. His class believed that and they have believed that throughout history - look at the howls of tory anguish that Shaftsbury had ringing in his ears as he tried to introduce the Ten Hour Bill for children in factories.

How ever bad you think the 1945 govt. was - they were right about some things and had their way about th NHS. Thank God.