//you're talking rubbish as usual. I was living in a large city at the time and there were no stinking piles of rubbish or unburied bodies. Please tell it as it was.//
So was I. I lived and worked in London and I had to walk through this twice a day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22/newsid_2506000/2506715.stm
If you believe the photos had been doctored, think again. I saw it and smelt it (even in January). As well as that there were around 150 bodies awaiting burial or cremations in Liverpool after gravediggers and crematorium staff went on strike. The refrigerated storage spoken of almost ran out and consideration was given to burying the bodies at sea. “Quite fun” for the grieving friends and relatives who could not even bury or cremate their loved ones.
The “Winter of Discontent” was not “quite fun”. It was an absolute bloody nightmare for anyone wanting to go about their business, especially in large towns and cities. It wasn’t just a case of “chatting and eating dinner over candlelight”. You got up in the morning not knowing whether you’d have hot water to wash or whether you’d be able to see to do so anyway (ever tried showering by candlelight?). The “schedules” of power cuts were totally unreliable and in any case you shouldn’t have to book an appointment to take a shower. You didn’t know if there would be transport available to get to work. You didn’t know if you’d have power at work when you got there. You didn’t know whether you’d be able to get home. You didn’t know whether you would be able to complete your weekly shop. That’s what it was like for weeks and that’s without the rotting rubbish and unburied dead. It’s a situation that no civilised society should have to endure, let alone suggest that it was “quite fun”.
//Vote Tory - and you'll get the privatisation of the NHS.//
I can’t wait. Anything that improves the unwieldy, bureaucratic and inefficient behemoth that is the so-called “envy of the world” cannot come soon enough for me. The world doesn’t envy the NHS, people in the UK say it does. When you visit many other places in the world you realise how ludicrous that contention is.