Too much capitalism is unhealthy, too much leaning towards the left is equally bad!

In the Late 1950's, the whole of the 1960's and the very early 1970's, we "never had it so good" because our governments did not lean too heavily on either side:

Labour under Sir Harold Wilson was right-wing and the Conservatives under Sir Edward Heath (may both gentlemen rest in peace) leaned towards the left, so neither did any real damage to the country. However, this laissez-faire attitude, coupled with the fact that the economy was in pretty good shape, led to the Trades Unions wielding enormous power and culminating in the Winter of Discontent. (Mind you, the power strikes and the coal miners' strikes which both led to long, controlled power cuts probably contributed to me being my fittest and healthiest as I just used to take myself off for long walks across the North Devon fields or cycle off to Dartmoor whenever a power cut was imminent! - For those old enough to remember, the times of the cuts were published in all the newspapers!)

Unfortunately, British business is currently sliding along a very dangerous path where the only thing that matters is bottom line - I've just returned from queueing for 35 minutes at the HSBC to pay one solitary cheque in, and queued in a Disney queue at Woolworths for nearly ten minutes to buy a chocolate bar - oh and it cost me £1.00 to park for the privelige of joining these queues!

If you look as an observer at any of our proud British "heritage" businesses, they are a shadow of their former size:

Marks and Spencer, Rolls Royce, British Airways, ICI etc are all in this vicious spiral of cut, cut, cut until, ultimately, there will be nothing left unless someone, somewhere can grasp the nettle and stop these Chief Executives being paid grossly inflated sums for producing short-term stratagems!

(I'm wondering how much of a kick-back certain Directors received from the sale of "Go" which, with hindsight, was clearly a mistake!)