I agree with the majority of your post Eric, especially the first paragraph where you state, "Mis-management by highly paid, greedy people both in government of all political colours and big business."
It is all too common for the blame to be lumped unfairly on one side or the other. Some people's response would appear to be almost invariably, blame Maggie Thatcher, knee jerk again!
In reality they are all in the thrall of big business, in fact Tony Blair would have loved to be even more in with them, as he was desperate to lessen the influence of the trades unions on his New Labour invention.
Seems odd to try to cut out those who started a a party, from that party, but there you go. A better man with faith in his politics, would have started a new party.
No Jim it's not a right wing rant, it's realism.