Silicon Fern's urban sprawl continues to press up again my beautiful English countryside, which works out well for me as I'm a medical researcher, we have industries that pay very well, but they require years and years of schooling.

Tourism is what people with no talent sell as it's the only thing they have - it keeps the little communities that should of shrivelled up and died decades ago alive...ensuring politicians, laughable small businesses, and land lords keep their jobs....

It's a bit more complicated, Flossy dear. But it doesn't sound like you're open to persuasion this morning.

Some of the unions shamelessly abused their power, but they were matched by the incompetence of management and unimaginative government.

Neither the centrally planned welfare state nor the free market appear to serve us well on their own. We need a judicious mix.

Take the NHS, for example - perhaps our most "socialist" instution. Having created several business in the UK, and elsewhere, I think it is the single most important factor supporting the formation of UK businesses. Why? because it means new business owners simply don't have to think about the cost of healthcare for themselves or their employees so they see business-creation as a good option.

Get the mix right and socialism helps capitalism thrive and capitalism provides the cash to make socialism possible. Win-win - the essence of all good business.

Please, I know people who lived though the 1970s, they are all pretty much in agreement than things are much worse now than they were then.

America sold the world a bill of goods, advocating for the WORTHLESS common man to have a shot at the good life, instead of warehousing them in subsidized housing, assigning them to menial jobs, and promptly forgetting they exist.

What part of the word WORTHLESS do you not understand? The petite bourgeois(that's small business owners for the uneducated) exist to serve themselves, so why the hell do we need you again?

I have better things to do than to watch American neo-liberal propaganda. Your think tanks make the soviet-era Pravda appear truthful.