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Yes, exactly. Just heard him doing a half-time interview on Radio Sussex. Dripping with envy and bitterness; completely understand why he's standing for Labour.

No. I was simply challenging your assumption that they were necessarily driven by envy. I suspect it's more complex than that, and many other motives, including anger, for the reasons I suggested, may have been involved. Personally I wouldn't have a party when someone dies (although I have been...

I'm only guessing here, but maybe at least some of the people to whom you refer were not so much envious of those who were "successful" under Thatcher, as angry on behalf of those whose communities and livelihoods were destroyed by Thatcher's divisive policies?

I can't speak for Herr Tubthumper and Nibble at whom this comment is targeted, but I do object to the assumption that a left-wing egalitarian perspective is driven by envy. I find this insulting and disrespectful. Personally speaking, I have always voted Labour (in the absence of genuine...

Again - basic economics: some proportion of the value embodied in the BMWs and Mercedes is, in fact, generated by the train drivers who transport those components and raw materials (steel etc) which come to the car plants by rail, and the BMW workers who get from their home to the factory by...

Again, I'm sorry, but this is simply wrong in economic terms. The activities of the public sector - health, education etc -- contribute hugely to enhancing the productive potential of the economy, and that is why estimates of their output are included in GDP in the national accounts by the...

With respect, this is tosh. Anyone with the most basic understanding of economics would know that the public sector (health, education, transport, utilities and the rest) makes a massive contribution to GDP. The notion that only the private sector contributes to "wealth creation" is simply wrong

Well, who knows? On that basis (taking nothing anyone says at face value), perhaps all those who cheered Thatcher's death and bought 'ding dong the witch is dead', were really sad and upset at the great woman passing, but just wanted to jump on the lefty bandwagon?

RIP I can't think of a bad word to say about him (except, possibly for the fact that he supported Millwall...). It's a great shame that he died so young but, as others on here have said, he made a real and positive difference to his members and, I believe, to the broader cause of trade unionism...