"Oh no they are NOT not by a long shot."
They are they only voice the working man has in the running of their own lives - The Trades Unions and the Post War Labour Government began to give the people what had been promised - "A land fit for heroes to live in" - decent social housing, a national health service, a fall-back benefit scheme for the unemployed, security of tenure at work....." - all opposed by Conservative Governments and eventually undermined and destroyed by Conservative and conservative-leaning principles.
Terribus is now going to tell us that working people are not to be trusted to run their own affairs - he has already told us that if the politicians fail to create conditions of high employment, we should get on our bikes and follow the work - ie - become an itinerant Labour force - which is a pretty fair summing-up of how we are regarded by him and his.
Voting for these people at election time now is a totally meaningless exercise - they promise the earth and do nothing when they are elected - and so ad infinitum.
The greatest example of how they work was the 'Labour Isn't Working' slogan in 1978 - the Toties won and shoved the unemployment figures up over a million - the highest since the thirties (now they have nearly got it up to two million - almost on par with The Depression and we no longer have security of any form at work and benefits are at survival level - just)
One of the great legacies of the 'patriotic' Thatcher years was the destruction of British industries - now we are totally reliant on buying from abroad - some ******* patriotism. eh?
Jim Carroll