You posted that before you read my last post. I'm not going to list the pickets and protests I've been on, why would I. I've had my ups and downs as a leftie and I've even been excoriated by people ostensibly on my own side. That's leftie life. Six in the morning on a picket line, outside a school miles from my own when I had to show up for work a couple of hours later, sub-zero temperatures, supporting school cleaners and dinner ladies being shat on by a supposedly Labour council...

Been there, done it, got the t-shirt, even though a bloody duffel coat would have been nice...