[Margaret Pilkington]

Guinness as always, you have highlighted some interesting points.
Alas, in the current situation many of these options are no longer available to us.
Hindsight is 20/20.
And you are right about the career politicians, those who were elected but know nothing of what real work is about, who are more interested in becoming 'celebrities' in political cirlces, making money off the backs of the working man.
True socialism has not existed since...well, let me think.....for a long time.
I can remember it...just.

In the past industries have gone to the wall because we exported jobs to countries who could do the job for less money.
We took our expertise and gave it to those people..we sold them machinery...and yet we didn't expect people in this country to want to buy goods that were cheaper, but did the local man out of a job...that is not a realistic expectation.

There are many reasons why industries failed...and they all need to be considered, not just the ones which fit into our own political ideology.