Excuse me Bluesman. It was the tories who gave up on us. Decided it just too difficult to figure out a way to keep our mining and heavy engineering, ship building, motorbike, most of the car, most of the steel, most of the manufacturing industries going. Massive mega unemployment. Scenes of Dickensian poverty. Beggars on the street and an endemic hard drug problem.

You remember - we were going to have the economy revived in a services led revival. The only part of the economy that has thrived has been the black economy - criminal enterprises - sometimes white collar, sometimes various mafias moving in on England like an uncut diamond. Even our major institutions seem to owned by international ruffians football team, banks , the bloody lot!

Every government (tory and Labour) since Thatcher has simply been sticking their fingers in the dike to try and mitigate the scale of the disaster, she and the selfish bastards voting for her brought about.

Labour mess, my arse!