So what is the way to get public services properly funded and the people working in them paid properly? Vote for it? But we've done that, twice in a row.

There was a time a lot of people really believed that electing a Labour Government would achieve that. And then they perhaps believed that, if somehow there could be a Labour Government that wasn't having to look over it's shoulder all the time because there was a strong opposition barking at its heels, it would stop being frightened to abandon the clothes itbhad stolen from the Tories.

All that seems like a sick joke now. The brand name is still there (a bjut modified), but the proiducr has changed. We've got a fairly decent Tory Government, a bit further to the right than say Macmillan was, and there seems every prospect of it sticking round a long time. But when it comes to dealing with the unions, it seems it's decided to show that it can even out-Thatcher Thatcher.