Wish you were here

Thomas Cook has gone into liquidation after 178 years of providing affordable holidays for ordinary people. About 150,000 people are stranded and the British government are paying millions of pounds to pay their hotel bills and have them flown home.

The Labour Party are currently fighting each other at their AGM, the hard left versus Blairites. They still cannot collectively decide if they are for or against Brexit, so nobody knows who to vote for any more.

Some of the more rabid members have put forward a resolution to nationalise all public schools in the unlikely event they ever come to power. They are, of course, aiming at Eton and the Conservatives, but if they ever got their way and turned the education system of Britain into something resembling the Soviet model it would be the legalised theft of property as Robert Mugabe encouraged. The last time that property was actual theft in this country was the Dark Ages. Having said that, Bath Rugby seem to be getting away with stealing the Recreation Ground here.

Thomas Cook was at one time nationalised, now it is/was the biggest tour operator in the world. The current CEO payed himself £8 million over three years and the rest of the board £30 million over the same period. I thought that executives were supposed to be paid by results (actually I didn't). It doesn't matter to them if Thomas Cook is a private company now, the British people are paying the final bills anyway.

Thomas Cook (the man himself) lived in Bath, in a nice house in the Sion Hill area, paid for by his successful business. He gave working class people their first ever opportunity to have a proper family holiday which they could afford.

I know that things have changed - and are changing - all over the world, but it only takes a relatively small amount of people to destroy what others built over hundreds of years. Labour are still obsessing over class as everything collapses around them.