A question for Richard Bridge where would you rather live?

So far your statements would seem to indicate Castro's Cuba:

"Castro gave Cuba freedom from starvation, freedom from homelessness, freedom from illiteracy, and health. A damned good deal for Cuba. And a similar revolution would be a damned good deal for the USA and the UK, where the oligopolists conspire to starve and exterminate the less advantaged." - Richard Bridge

Yet you remain in the UK - Why?

Could it be because in Castro's Cuba you only got all those "freedoms" as long as you lived where you were told to live, worked where you were told to work, did as the Party directed, never dared to criticise the regime for fear of being reported and exposed as a "reactionary".

I would dearly like to see any substantiation for that last bit, i.e. "the USA and the UK, where the oligopolists conspire to starve and exterminate the less advantaged" - Oligopoly means a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers, thereby allowing and maintaining restricted or limited competition doesn't it? Tell me Richard what greater proponents of "oligopoly" could there be than any Communist country of the type that Castro adopted for Cuba post 1959.

Once served on what the Royal Navy called the West Indies Station. It was split into two zones. The Northern Zone covered Bermuda down to the Bahamas, the Southern Zone covered the Caribbean.

While in the Northern Zone we were under the operational control of the US Coast Guard and the main function was to patrol the channel between the northern coast of Cuba and the Bahamas Keys. The latter we searched regularly and picked up the poor unfortunates fleeing from the "paradise" that was Castro's Cuba and the other thing we searched for was for caches of weapons being smuggled into Cuba. The Southern Zone was much simpler we were there as Hurricane Guard Ships to provide immediate aid anywhere a hurricane struck.

We never encountered anyone trying to gain entry to Castro's Cuba from the surrounding countries and islands which according to Richard Bridge were all "hellholes" compared to Castro's Cuba - rather strange that isn't it?