Isn't it ironic that the 'Great' British are so rotten?

The British have, if nothing else, a delicate understanding of irony, after all they elected Mad Tony three times after he repeatedly told them that he was 'an honest sort of guy.' Another explanation is that, as a nation, they are utterly shameless and have abandoned all pretence at decency and dignity. That is, of course a generalisation as it does not apply to everyone in this sorry country, but it does generalise enough to be stated with a fair degree of accuracy. This week we have the Tory Prime Minister hosting an international conference on corruption whilst his own party are subject to 27 (at present) cases of electoral corruption and criminality by 10 different police forces, whilst another police force is investigating electoral corruption by a Tory Police and Crime Commissioner who was elected just last week in Devon and Cornwall. Today we had the Electoral Commission taking the Tory Party to the High Court for failure to disclose crucial documentation concerning the aforementioned electoral irregularities following the Tories failure to disclose this information after two requests over the past three months. The law applies only to the little people in Britain as I have told you repeatedly.
The Westminster pigsty are trying to con the whole world with calls for financial and business transparency when their own Crown Protectorates are the most corrupt states on earth and the pigsty point blank refuses to do anything to rectify it, whilst the Tory government are in danger of finding a whole tranche of their officials and candidates being charged with criminal offences. Now, I have absolutely no faith in the British legal system actually bringing anyone to account for their criminality, unless it involves a working person or someone on benefits, as our legal guardians are every bit as corrupt as the pigsty. The British believe that justice is a horse running in the Grand National and is a nation where no-one in a position of any authority is ever held to account, because, as we unceasingly tell everyone, Britain is a meritocracy and therefore everyone in a position of authority is in that position by merit and everyone who is not in a position of authority is a failure and a waster who does not deserve the normal considerations. Thus, should anyone from a working class background, a trade unionist or someone on benefits be suspected of any form of criminality or fraud, they will be prosecuted with the whole might of the law. However, should that person be of Asian extract or even worse, Islamic, then we should not really bother with the legal process as they are obviously guilty, and anyway, the only people of any merit and deserving of consideration are white middle class Protestants. Therefore, prosecuting working class people and benefit scroungers is the right thing to do because such people pollute the environment simply by existing and non-whites and Islamists obviously deserve all they get. In Britain we have been watching programmes about the process of the Hillsborough disaster (and, as I told you before, are revisiting the miners strike and the events at Orgreave in Yorkshire where the police launched a military style campaign against the miners) and the corruption of politics and the legal system highlighted by these programmes is genuinely hard to believe, involving government, the coroners office, judges, the police, the media and ordinary politicians. As I told you before, the truth about Hillsborough only came to light due to the tenacity of ordinary Liverpudlians and the legislation of the European Union. So, its no use the pigsty or the establishment congratulating themselves for 'justice' being served in this enlightened nation when they have spent the past 30 years doing everything in their power to prevent the truth coming to light.

I don't suppose that Britain is really any worse than other countries because that is what all governments and systems of power do, however we would do well to exercise a little humility and caution when presenting ourselves as the beacons of rectitude and the rule of law. As this post began by highlighting how the British government is being investigated for criminality, we should be reminded of the American Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, who told us in 1928 that ,
“If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law. It invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy.”

It does not need to be stated that a civilised society must be morally founded on rule by law, as opposed to rule by people exercising power. The Roman philosopher Cicero argued, “We are all servants of the laws in order that we may be free.” As a result, if our rulers refuse to be subject to the laws that they themselves establish and are the supposed guardians of, can we truly call ourselves free? Indeed can we honestly call ourselves a civilised society? The Athenian statesman Pericles, describing Athenian democracy told us that:
"Our polity does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. It is called a democracy, because not the few but the many govern. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if to social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition....Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state."

These are not trivial points because when British politicians persistently invoke the concept of sovereignty, what they are in actual fact doing is demanding the right to do whatever they want unrestrained by law, custom, decency or civilised behaviour. By their fruits shall you know them a wise man once told us. You have been warned.
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What should I vote in the EU Referendum? Well lets see!

A friend came to visit me yesterday to ask my advice for the upcoming European referendum. I never tell other people how to vote, so I told him I would ask him a question. As he is a very keen football supporter I asked him what the ultimate goal his team has at the start of every season. He told me that it was to win the league. Why is that important? Because they will qualify for Europe he said. That is what every British football fan dreams of, getting into Europe. Their domestic championship is important but fades into insignificance beside the real prize, European football and the money and status that comes with it. That example may seem rather trivial and appear politically irrelevant but I asked him that because much was made by the commentators whilst I was watching Man. City playing Arsenal about the importance for both teams finishing in a position that would give them entrance to next years Champions League and the disaster for each if they failed. Thus, whether they are aware of it or not, the supporters of our elite teams in football are all desperate to get into Europe via the Champions League because that is where the money is, and of course the glory and status. Without Europe they will fade into international irrelevance and relative poverty. I wonder if that may just be an allegorical example?
I asked him a number of other questions, such as, what kind of society did he wish to live in? Without going into detail, I asked him if he thought Britain could be a just and equal society, a tolerant society, under people like Michael Gove, Boris the Spider, Iain Duncan Eichmann and Nigel Garbage? These people, I reminded him are the people piloting the Trades Union Bill through Parliament, negotiating TTIP, and who never bother to hide their loathing for working class people, but particularly working class Scots. I then showed him a leader article from the Guardian which stated that

"The trade union bill, which the government advertised as its flagship at the start of the parliamentary session that ends next week, has been heavily amended. But it is still a nasty, vindictive piece of legislation. There is no justification for it beyond a partisan desire to weaken trade unions, and indirectly to weaken the Labour party, to the point where it becomes almost impossible for workers to defend their rights".

I then reminded him that I have been telling him for the past twenty years that the neoliberal elite, those that are most keen to leave the EU, are determined to reduce working people to the status of modern day slaves. He now has the Guardian telling him what I have been warning about for two decades. You used to smile when I told you that I said, but you're not smiling now, why not? Are you beginning to think I may just have been correct? So, I asked him, do you want to live in a country that has opted out of the various Charters of Human Rights, that denies climate change, that continues to build and finance nuclear weapons, that demonises working people, their trades unions, the disabled, people on benefits, and in the case of Nigel Garbage, promises to repeal the Scotland Act and abolish the Scottish Parliament, etc. etc. I finished my chat with my friend by returning to football and telling him to look up the Hillsborough disaster because without the Human Rights Act and the European Court of Human Rights, the inquest that found that the Liverpool supporters were unlawfully killed would never have happened. Article 2 of the ECHR (the right to life) has meant it is no longer enough for an inquest to decide the means by which a person died; the circumstances in which the death occurred must also be determined. Michael Mansfield QC who represented many of the Hillsborough families noted that “one of the unusual features of these inquests has been the way the friends and relatives of the deceased have been accorded a central status” – a requirement of the European Court of Human Rights. Why do these Brexit people want to leave Europe? in order to destroy whatever remains of our human rights and deny justice, that's why. To complete the enslavement of working people. They want cover ups such as Hillsborough to succeed and they want to demonise the working people who go to football. If that is the kind of country you want to live in, then your choice is obvious when you go to vote I told him, and like him, you have been warned.

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I think British politics has changed forever

To keep you up to date on the betting on Britain's EU referendum, the odds have shifted slightly in favour of leaving, but they still represent a 64% vote to remain. The average odds are 9/4 to leave and 1/3 to remain. If the betting is a reflection of voting intentions then the leave campaign have an obstacle to climb that appears to be quite insurmountable. However, Leicester City have just won the English Premier League from odds of 5,000/1 so we shall await the referendum with interest. From a personal point of view, I find it difficult to reconcile the bookmakers odds with my own observations. I feel that the Leave campaign are leading public opinion quite significantly, but I am loathe to dismiss the betting odds as my experience tells me that the bookies are rarely wrong. There is no doubt however that the British electorate are getting more right wing and xenophobic. It is a source of despair and great shame that the Tories have made significant  gains in the Scottish Parliament elections though they were mostly at the expense of Scottish Labour who deserved all they got. However a surge in Toryism is a genuinely worrying development as our recent history suggests that the Scots are too decent and intelligent to vote for those people. It is to be hoped that it is a temporary phenomenon.

A great deal of noise is always made by unionists when the SNP bring up the subject of a possible referendum on Scottish Independence if the rest of the UK vote to leave the EU. We are constantly being reminded that the SNP leadership stressed that the Scottish Referendum would be a 'once in a generation' chance to vote for independence. It goes without saying that the SNP leadership do not speak for the Scottish people, of which I am one, and I am at a loss as to why the SNP do not promote the argument that I make and that seems to me blindingly obvious. From my perspective, the commitment that the referendum was a once in a generation event was predicated on the fact that the Westminster pigsty parties were being honest and would keep their word. If I pledge that my support will be committed to a respect for the democratic majority, then that democratic majority will itself have to be founded on a commitment to fairness and honesty, I will not respect mendacity and betrayal. As I write this, the Scottish Labour Party have been hammered in the Scottish Parliament elections held this week, have been abandoned by their core support in Scotland and this is the result of its betrayal of the Scottish people during and after the referendum. We were comprehensively lied to and betrayed, and Labour are paying the price. They deserve their fate. The Tories were even worse with the Prime Minister appearing on the steps of Ten Downing Street one hour after the referendum result breaking all of the promises he made during the campaign. As a result, I do not feel obliged to support my pledge to wait for another generation to remove myself from a union that is based on lies, damned lies and betrayal, simples! In the aftermath of the referendum, the residents of the pigsty revealed themselves for the pathological and unprincipled liars that they are, and that embraced all the pigsty parties. If anyone wonders why Labour is in such a state of decline in Scotland, look no further than their behaviour during and since the Scottish Referendum.

Politics in Scotland are quite different from the rest of the UK and I will state quite confidently that there is no such thing as a British political system any more. Labour's demise has little to do with the fortunes of the national party and it is now beyond any doubt in my mind that Scottish Labour will have to declare its independence from the Westminster Party if they are, not only to recover, but to survive. Labour are too identified with Iraq, Mad Tony, austerity and their collaboration with the Tories during the referendum. They are seriously damaged in Scotland by the lies and betrayal of Daphne Broon and Alistair Darling and the catastrophic leadership of  Jim the Murphy. I believe that Labour will recover in Scotland, but as I have written here before they will have to literally reinvent themselves. You have been warned

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The Dark Side of Thatcherism

Peter Oborne is a British journalist, a committed right-winger who describes himself as a Conservative and who was, until last year, chief political editor of the Daily Telegraph. He now works for the Daily Mail, the British newspaper that, until 1939, openly supported Hitler and the Nazis, and, if Hitler was still alive today would undoubtedly still support him. He is also a committed opponent of Scottish Independence. He is therefore not the kind of person that I would invite for dinner. However, peculiarly for a Tory, he seems to have a conscience and a sense of morality as many of his positions are adopted from his stated commitment to the rule of law and his departure from the Telegraph was because he resigned, accusing the Telegraph of defrauding its readers by suppressing stories about the activities of major companies and corporations for commercial reasons. This type of behaviour is very unusual for a Tory as they normally believe that the law is only for the little people, and, as I continually warn you, work unceasingly to undermine any law that they consider a constraint on their never ending quest for unlimited power and wealth. Tories have neither any sense of moral fibre or any hesitation to lie shamelessly, and, they have a pathological hatred of working people and reserve a special loathing of the labour movement. As a result, when Oborne voices criticism of the Conservatives and government policies, I do not simply dismiss him, as, once again extremely rare for any Tory, he seems to be quite honest.

For those of you who read this from outside the UK, there has been an ongoing and long-term dispute surrounding two major events in recent British history concerning the behaviour of the British police and their collusion with and identification with Conservative governments and their policies. These are the Hillsborough disaster where 96 Liverpool football supporters lost their lives, and the 1984-85 miners strike. Hillsborough is the name of Sheffield Wednesday's stadium that was the venue for a football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, and a major inquest by jury into the Hillsborough disaster has just concluded that completely exonerated the Liverpool supporters and exposed police criminality, involving perjury, tampering with police personal notebooks, interfering with witnesses etc. However, this disaster also involved collusion between the police and the government of Margaret Thatcher who personally intervened to praise the police and support their claims, whilst her office fed lies and smears to the British press. What is possibly worse is that these lies and smears have been maintained right up till now and has led to the dismissal of the Chief Constable in South Yorkshire.

The other event, the miners strike, involved the same police force, the South Yorkshire Police, and the Hillsborough inquiry has led to demands that the events at Orgreave, which lies just outside Sheffield, are reopened and subject to another Inquiry. This involved a confrontation between the police and striking miners which we now know involved a very close collusion between the police and Thatcher herself as well as other prominent members of her government. With respect to the Orgreave incident, Peter Oborne has now publicly called for a proper investigation of these events. He stated that an Inquiry was not a sufficient method of investigation and insisted that it must be done by a Royal Commission because he stated that there was a very real collusion between the State, the police and the media during the miners strike and that the events at Orgreave exposed what he termed the "dark side of the Thatcher era". During the Orgreave confrontation 95 miners were arrested and charged with riot and other offences and every one of the cases was thrown out by the British judiciary because the evidence against them was so obviously fabricated. Such revelations have caused Oborne to comment that "some things went very, very wrong during the Thatcher era."

I mention these things because they are evidence of what I write to you about. When people like Peter Oborne are publicly evidencing what I write to you about the Tories it is time people began to take more notice. You see, whilst Oborne highlights the dark side of the Thatcher era, I am unaware of a bright side. She was a genuinely bad person whose policies have brought Britain to the edge of ruin and have heralded an era where morality has been purged from political and economic life and her acolytes operate from an ethical vacuum. We are still having a debate as to whether we will accept the 3,000 parentless refugee children I wrote about last week. This government are truly disgusting and Oborne's only problem is that he cannot seem to see that what went very, very wrong during the Thatcher era has gotten steadily worse since. Still I commend him for his honesty and look forward to a Royal Commission on Orgreave. Things are so bad in Yorkshire that prominent people are calling for the South Yorkshire Police Force to be disbanded . However, they were only doing Thatcher's bidding, both at Orgreave and at Hillsborough. You have been warned

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No wonder America is voting for Trump if this is the opinion of the Obama's

One of the big disappointments I have encountered in politics has been the Presidency of Barak Obama. From my perspective he has been a failure. I feel that one explanation for this can be found in an interview I read that his wife Michelle had given in which she stated that

"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success in life will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude".

This is so painfully wrong and hopelessly idealistic that I despair that the President of the United States may share such a grotesque view of the real world. I feel that he probably does as his wife is so confident that she can make such public statements without being contradicted by her husband. If that is so, is it any wonder that his Presidency can be such a disappointment if he carries such a blinkered individualist philosophy into his political life and utilises it for the basis of his public policy making. It is even more remarkable coming from an African-American who must witness daily that the determining influence on the vast majority of his fellow African-Americans is race, regardless of their individual self-confidence and fortitude. Of course some individuals will succeed in life through their own confidence and fortitude, but these are the exceptions, those that are lucky enough to be able to exploit the chinks in the armour of the bourgeois elite who govern our western society and erect formidable barriers to the majority of society who are not part of their elite circle. There are ways by which many people can make it up the ladder such as sport, music, or, too often crime. But for the most of us in society who are not born into a more privileged milieu there are ceilings and barriers to any form of meaningful advancement. At the present time I wonder how many American Muslims would agree with Mrs Obama?

In the UK the most obvious barrier is class. Britain is a quite ferociously class ridden society. Class permeates Britain like a blanket, smothering talent and opportunity. The Westminster party system is a classic example of that with working class MPs almost invisible. All you need to do is listen to the accents of people at the top, and look at their background. Britain is also bedevilled by gender and racial discrimination because of the Eton/Harrow type of white male Tory mentality that dominates progress in this sorry nation. If you consider the political class in modern Britain it is characterised by mediocrity and buffoonery. It is the same in the media with presenters and commentators who are chosen for their looks and their accents rather than any meaningful knowledge or talent. I have written before and I repeat, if you had the ability to combine the intellects of the Conservative government in this country you would struggle to produce a halfwit.

The phenomenon of Donald Trump is a reflection of the exclusion of the majority of the American people and their effective disenfranchisement. What did Obama's election do for African-Americans? Well from this side of the Atlantic is doesn't seem to be very much. It hasn't stopped them from being shot and imprisoned. It hasn't seen any meaningful rise in their employment prospects and life chances. From Mrs Obama's perspective this must only mean that they have no self-confidence or inner fortitude and that their lack of success must be a result of inherent character flaws. This is exactly the same kind of poisonous nonsense we get from the Westminster pigsty. There are no causal social factors producing poverty and social exclusion, it is all the result of personal failure. Until we address the social causes of failure, class, race, gender, ethnicity etc. we will never begin to understand the root causes of the serious problems that exist in our societies, never mind beginning to solve them. This dominant neoliberal political and economic filth must be confronted and exposed. You have been warned

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It is an insult to genuine vermin to liken them to a Tory

If any one thing has conclusively exposed the barbarity and complete lack of humanity of the British Conservative Party it was their rejection of a proposal to accept 3,000 parentless refugee children into the safety of the United Kingdom last night. This proposal was the result of an attempt by a Labour peer who himself arrived in Britain as a refugee from Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Nazis through the Kindertransport scheme. There are an estimated 95,000 child refugees floating around Europe with no parents and this proposal argued that the UK should immediately accept 3,000 of them to save them from the horror and dangers they are exposed to in this desperate situation. For those of you from outside the UK who may read this, Britain has 650 Parliamentary constituencies and so this proposal was arguing for less than 5 children per constituency, but that was far too much for the Tories to stomach. Within Scotland, once you travel north of Perth, you enter a large area of the United Kingdom whose population density numbers 9 per square mile. Therefore to increase that to 14 per square mile would obviously place an unacceptable burden on local services and pose a threat to the culture and survival of the Scottish nation. It is a similar perspective in the North of England and the Scottish Borders, with miles and miles of space and a low population density. However, I suppose we must thank our wise Westminster masters for saving us from the catastrophe of imposing such a strenuous increase in population on sacred land. In addition, how can we rationally accept a group of feral children who would almost certainly be (whisper it quietly and with fear and trepidation) Muslims. Thus to give sanctuary and safety to what would almost certainly be the next generation of suicide bombers and Islamic fanatics must be against the national British interest. On the other hand the explanation for the refusal to support this proposal may just perhaps be that the Tories are genuinely evil, callous, and so lacking in humanity that they have abandoned all vestiges of civilisation. Like their economic doctrine of free market neoliberalism, they are a lie, a sham and a fraud. I really thought that nothing the Tories could do could surprise me any more, but this is so disgusting that I find it difficult to digest.

England averages 413 people per square mile, but if you exclude London from that equation it drops to 353, Wales has 149, Northern Ireland 135 and Scotland 68. That is hardly the description of a nation that is full up as the Tories and UKIP are constantly telling us. Now, if we really want to get technical, the actual amount of the English nation that is actually built on is 2.27%, really, that is the figure. Over 97% of England is what is described as natural. That is the figure given by the Office of National Statistics in their UK Environmental Accounts. Now, these figures were for 2012, but they will hardly have altered by very much in four years. This is the figure for those parts of England that have been 'concreted over.' That means that are covered by buildings, roads, car parks, railways, paths etc. But according to the Tory anti-immigrants and the neo-Nazis in UKIP, we are full up, we cannot take any more. In addition, 80% of Britons live in an urban setting, in cities and towns of varying sizes, so we have the other 20% of Brits enjoying 97% of the landscape, free from care and from immigrants and Muslim children. Now, 93% of Britain is urban, but 53% of urban landscape is not built on and consists of parks, gardens, greenspaces etc. That is why the built on figure rises to just over 97%. However, that was for England, if you add in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland the built on figure actually falls to just over 1% with just under 99% free from concrete.

If you take such figures into account it makes this decision by the Tories even more nauseating given that even if our urban areas appear to be crowded, there are approximately 650,000 houses lying empty in England alone according to the Empty Homes Agency. In 2015, the Tory government admitted to 610,123 empty homes in England, Scotland had 31,844, Wales 23,171, yet we have not the ability to take any more than 23,000 refugees over the next five years, but most importantly, the situation is so bad according to the Tories that we cannot accept 3,000 children in a critical situation. So much for civilised Christian Britain. I will stop here because the more I write on this matter the sicker I feel and the more deeply ashamed I am to be British. You have been warned.

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All power to the doctors strike

Revolutions normally, and successful revolutions usually, begin from the middle classes of a population, from the indigenous bourgeoisie. When the bourgeoisie feel under threat and feel that they are in danger of being marginalised and under attack, they mobilise with a class solidarity that the working classes can only dream about. Today we see the mobilisation of a group that typify the privilege and earning power of the modern bourgeoisie, the junior doctors. This is a group of people whose default position is to hold ordinary working people in complete contempt and to completely disown any form of working class industrial action. Strikes are for other people, they could never, up until now, envisage a situation where they would even contemplate such a common and uncouth activity. The label 'Dr' opens doors that few other people can access. It procures tables in restaurants, tickets for the theatre, negates the tiresome necessity to queue. The principal motivation for a career in medicine is the abnormal status that accompanies such a position in the labour market. Doctors enjoy a status that is normally reserved for a very few people. In addition, they enjoy both a level of salary and a guarantee of job security that is unequalled in any other group of working people. Finally, they can look forward to a pension that will secure their retirement at a level that hardly any other working person can dream about. For all of these reasons, their recourse to all out industrial action highlights a deeply serious and profound malady within British society. It is to the Tories credit and the delight of people like me, that they are so stupid, arrogant and self-obsessed, so dismissive of any opinion other than their own, that they seriously believe that they can so contemptuously dismiss the threat that this action poses to their carefully constructed national narrative. Their problem is that they are now in conflict with a group of people whose contempt for others exceeds their own.

The medical profession have now woken up to the reality that people like me have been banging on about for years now, the Tories long-term agenda for the destruction of the health service and its complimentary ancillary services that constitutes the genuine threat to the future of the NHS and therefore to the terms and conditions of the medical profession. As I repeatedly write, the free marketeers will not tolerate any form of constraint on their activities and they have now identified the doctors as just such a constraint, as a result, doctors will have to be brought to heel and humbled. A group of people who have only a passing notion as to what doctors actually do have decided that they will determine a doctor's terms and conditions of employment, even if the entire medical profession tells them that they are wrong. Why? Because these people have no interest whatever in medicine, patient care and safety, or the health and welfare of the British population, their only concern is money. This conflict is, from the government's point of view, nothing whatever to do with health, the NHS, or the welfare of the British population. It is focused on a group of people who are the next in line for the process, started by Thatcher, of waging war on what are perceived as vested interests and as a potential threat to their long-term goal of transferring as much of the nations wealth upwards as possible, and, in the case of the health services, this will be achieved by the privatisation of health care. So, just as the power of the miners, the steel workers, and the public sector employees, particularly in local government, had to be smashed and neutered, so the doctors must go the same way. It was not an accident that Jeremy Hunt described the medical profession as a trade union in the pigsty today. As a result, they will be dealt with in exactly the same manner as the Tories have always dealt with trades unions, with contempt, hatred and by bullying and threats. Doctors are justifiably in shock, they have never been treated like other people before, and, they had better brace themselves, because if they continue to resist, the government will do what they have always done with working people, they will resort to violence. 

The latest weapon the Tories have applied is the same old weapon that was successfully employed against the miners etc. that is, they are trying to bring down the government. This is softening up the general public to the idea that doctors are becoming an enemy of the state who will have to be dealt with as harshly as is necessary. I await the inevitable Tory minister accusing them of terrorism. When such tactics were used against the miners, the steel workers, the firemen etc. the doctors, because they are almost exclusively Tories, nodded sagely and threw their full weight behind the Tories because in those days being a doctor was a grand thing and very lucrative and they did not want all these bolshie working class peasants upsetting the status quo. Now, when they are on the receiving end, they don't like it, but being doctors, they do not think for one minute that they have to put up with it.

Now, you will have gathered that I have very little sympathy with the medical profession, given that they are indeed a very privileged and pampered sector of society who guard their privilege quite ferociously. However, I do not blame them for that and I do have a great deal of sympathy with their case and their struggle against this most reactionary of governments. In addition, I will always defend anyone's right to withdraw their labour, because without that right you are effectively in a state of slavery. Also, I do not suspect for one minute that the doctors have any intention of bringing down a government, however, if the Tories are not careful that is what may well happen, and my last thought is, if the government are so determined that their course of action is the only one available, that there really is no alternative, then why is it not happening in Scotland and Wales? You have been warned

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