Are we going to see the growth of socialist, left wing parties in the western world now?

[Celia H]

Everywhere except the USA, they have existed for at least a century.

Everything you have said has been said before in Europe.

After WWII we put it into practice and made our countries fit places for the majority of the people to live in, for the first time in their history. Until the American-inspired and American-financed Lurch to the Right, Europe was probably the best part of the world to live in. Social Democratic Scandinavia still is.

One of the effects of this is that no-one here fears the cost of illness. Our NHS is as public as the police and fire brigade.

A huge 'Hear Hear' to your postscript. Neoliberal extreme capitalism is for 2% of the people. Socialism is for the other 98%.

Raise the Scarlet Standard high!