First the coal mines; then the shipyards; then the steelworks.
Now, it's the farms, the fields and the care homes.
In May 2010, the UK stumbled into electing a Tory-led government ideologically bent on dismantling "the state" through vicious spending cuts which hit the poor the hardest.
The Tories' coalition partners - the Lib-Dems - appear to have sold their souls in pursuit of power and are helpless to limit the damage.
Now it's simply a question of: "What and who is next?"
John D. Lewis.