BSeed: Thanks for having the courage to express the down-side of your Government. But as CC says, that's only one side of your nation. I reckon most Governments are pretty dire - it's just yours has the power to fail humanity on a greater scale that others. And anyway, as I recall WE (the UK) instigated the slave trade . .

All we (the individuals) can do is keep up our small acts of protests. There's an analogy I've heard several times but most memorably from Ewan MacColl. If you've a bucket under a dripping tap, one drip doesn't appear to make any difference at all . . but the bucket will still overflow in time.

So - from one drip - thanks again to the rest of you for reminding me that people are, generally, decent.

G.