Thanks for the offer of a pint. wpb. Cheers. If only some of your compatriots were so well informed about the rest of the world I am sure they wouldn’t be so quick to assume they are the only ones with answers! Take Iran, how many of you know why there is no functioning secular democracy there? Did you know it had a perfectly acceptable democracy up until the early fifties when your country (and mine, for it’s sins)couldn’t accept their free election of a socialist who wanted to nationalise the main oil extractor (now British Petroleum, formerly the British-Persian Oil Company) which was exporting the lion’s share of their oil profits. So our two ‘bastions of democracy and freedom’ jointly financed a coup which freed a Nazi collaborator from an Iranian jail and put in him in charge. The first Shah! Hurrah! So having replaced a secular democracy with a dictatorship, do you not think our wonderful coutries should now bow their heads in shame for our actions? Or should we abandon the fiction that we really care who has freedom, and carry on assuming we have the answers to everything? BTW, socialism has given us, in Europe, a fantastic healthcare system which costs around a twentieth of yours. Lastly, has the recent demise of your free-booting unregulated capitalism taught you folk nothing?
