If only the left had someone with the political accumen and vision of Mrs Thatcher, her "right to buy" scheme was a masterstroke, making full use of left hypocrisy to turn working class Britain, "Conservative" overnight, with the added advantage that all the discount money could be retrieved through the banking and mortgage system.

Of course, the nastiest influence in the UK and the world at large is Capitalism....everyone with more than two conjoined brain cells knows this, the problem has always been what do we replace it with, yet cause the minimum of damage to the huge centres of population constructed by the capitalist system.

Socialism is simply a device to take the rough edges off the present system and could never be seriously regarded as an alternative.
Socialism is really of more value to the leaders of Capitalism
as a "safety valve", than to the dispossesed or the worker ants.

I think perhaps we have regressed to such an extent socially that we have no chance of changing a system built on greed and envy for one based on personal freedom and happiness.