'David Nicholson was a member of The British Communist Party many years ago.'

Back in those days Ian, Woodrow Wyatt was a left winger.

Didn't learn my history, Don - had the misfortune to live and work through it.

Would agree that management gave the industries away. And which party is the party of the bosses. I worked for British Leyland and never saw, an ununcooperative worker - but I saw dozens of shit management decisions.

As The Spycatcher debacle implied, the tory grandees were in power even when they weren't in office. Callaghan and Wilson did some good stuff. Comprehensive education as a stated aim. The Open University. Index linked benefits (soon done away withby her holiness, the tory saint).

But since Suez we've been so far up the USA's bum that even Wilson's mild disgreement over Vietnam was not tolerated by our Lords and Masters. Wilson was the last PM to have the balls to stand up to USA foreign policy - possibly the last of the 1945 patriots.
The US kicked the shit out of our economy for having such temerity and independence of spirit.