[kirklancaster]

Hi Deb,

I was a very, very staunch Socialist - a devout Labour voter - in my youth and through to my mid-thirties.

I vigorously campaigned for the Labour Party, for The Campaign For Homosexual Equality, marched with The Aldermaston Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament marchers (1972), donated thousands of pounds in money AND goods from my 'Mini-Market' to the striking miners in 1984 and 1985, and detested the Tories.

Since that time, as I became more aware, I became disillusioned with most politicians and resorted to 'Swing Voting' - my vote, often by default, going to which party at the time seemed the lesser of the evils.

I voted UKIP last time, but for a good few years now, I have moved to the Right - largely due to the extreme left Anti-Democratic, Anti-British, Terrorist-Appeasing, Anti-Semitic, infiltration of the Labour Party which I have perceived, but also the facts that Socialist Ideology is ludicrously naive and Socialist Economic Policy DOES NOT WORK and NEVER will.