I too worked long hours for a pittance to put three meals a day on the table for my family.

Some of us never have the opportunity to get on that ladder mate, especially when the bottom rung gets higher and higher off the bloody ground.

I remember the seventies only too well. The value of our money went down and down, prices went up and up, and our industries were decimated by wildcat strikes about whether the same worker could turn both bolt and nut.

Don T.