Seriously ratty, do you not sometimes get just a little embarrassed about the rubbish that you post on here ?
Now I know that due to your extreme far right views you find the Tory Party leadership too left-wing for your liking.
But surely you are intelligent enough to realise that to describe what we've had for the last 13 years as Socialism under a socialist government, just makes you look, to put it bluntly, like a prat ?
I generally ignore much of your silly diversionary tactics ratty, but I feel slightly moved to respond to this :
"Ernie – do you honestly and truly believe that the lives of 'ordinary working people' were benefitted by the actions of the unions in the late 1970's?"
I can quite honestly and completely truthfully say, that in my entire life, strike action has at it's worst, caused me very very mild inconvenience. At best, it's had no effect on me at all. It has never affected my life in any appreciable way at all. And I believe that to be also the case too, for the overwhelming majority of ordinary working people.
What has effected me throughout my life however, has been my conditions of employment, my work environment, the remuneration which I receive for my labour, job security/insecurity, etc, etc. They have all affected my life in a very profound and fundamental way.
So the answer to your question is yes. Ordinary working people benefited from the actions of unions in the late 1970's. Although obviously big business didn't. And in just one way this can be seen, is the fact of how the wages as a percentage of GDP, have dropped by 12% since the late 1970's. Britain is a low wage economy due to weak unions. Bad news for ordinary working people, very very good news for big business.
Now lets get back to the subject……….surely if the Tories are as great as you claim they are ratty, and since they've been in power for far far longer than any other party in British politics, then they have introduced far more great reforms which have benefited ordinary people than the Labour Party – no ?
I mean, it would be awful if they had only managed just as many great reforms as the Labour Party – wouldn't you say so ratty ?
So list all these great Tory reforms which have fundamentally changed the lives of ordinary British people. And I'm talking about stuff like the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the Race Relation act, to give a clue what I'm after.