"MRS. McCLUSKEY AIN'T A GOOD SCOUT" (Loesser)

Those familiar with the successful Frank Loesser musical play 'Guys and Dolls' based on the shady, but humorous world, depicted in Damon Runyon stories of the wide boys and gamblers of big city USA, might recognise the title line from the song 'The oldest established, permanent, floating crap game in New York' selecting the place for the forthcoming game. Well, Mrs. McCluskey's son Len, general secretary of the Unite union, also dwells in this different world from those who have to get on with the enormous job of clearing up the mega-debt, in which the UK, along with the whole of the western world, finds itself.

The unions, as Marxists, need to disrupt any progress that the Coalition Government might be making. From the author's point of view, it is not moving fast enough. The downward slide created by the previous Government continues, essential for left wing mayhem.

Obviously, we know that these trouble makers have to try to retain as many union members as possible, for the sake of their own income. One wonders, nevertheless, why intelligent folk are prepared to forsake the nation, for what could be nothing but short term gain.


THE ECONOMIC FUTURE IS SPECTACULARLY PRECARIOUS.