Raggytash, I don't suppose Joe cares greatly what you or I think of him. Joe and I have clashed over many issues and agreed on a few; the important thing to me is that Joe remains rational at all times, he is straight and does not use abuse like racist, homophobe etc in place of rational argument.

This thread has been ruined by deletions and were it not for the OP would certainly have been closed....as too many inconvenient truths have been appearing.
I have repeatedly tried to be rational and answer Jim's abuse, to have my post removed within minutes.

Politics in the UK in the thirties were much more polarised than they are today....Communism was perceived as a great danger to our way of life, and Fascism regarded by many as an antidote.

As ever Divide and rule became the order of the day.