""You know which party it was, Bubbly - the same 'Robin Hood In Reverse Party' that takes from the poor to give huge tax cuts to the rich, that later gleefully destroyed our mining and manufacturing industries, leaving us at the mercy of Easter European countries for our energy, and Far Eastern countries for manufactured goods.""

I do get a real laugh sometimes, when I read these half propaganda/ half urban myth comments.

Let's all ignore some uncomfortable facts, so that we can convince ourselves that it wasn't our side at fault. It was all done by the Tories.

The fact that millions of man hours were lost in wildcat strikes, and stoppages over impossibly inflated wage claims and disputes about whether a bolt fitter could screw the nut home, or should the spanner man fit the bolt?

The fact that the British manufacturing industry had made little forward progress since WW2.

The fact that the British worker was more interested in the clock than the machinery, and wanted fewer and fewer hours, for more and more wages.

The fact that all the above were true before the Heath government was elected, never mind Thatcher.

All this happened under the aegis of Britain's most crooked politician of all time, one Harold Wilson.

THAT is the truth of the situation.

While British car dealers were asking do you want any extas, and when told "No!", responding with "You want wheels and doors, don'tcha"?, the wily Japanese were offering cars with everything included.

The British Motorcycle industry were still producing WW2 technology bikes, while the Japs were knocking 'em out more luxurious than the average Brit car, and more sturdy, faster, safer.......

Japanese white goods, Japanese cameras, Japanese radios (that worked).

Still no Tory government since 1964, so how were they responsible?

Don T.