it is indeed. Rather like colonialism, “when they arrived we had the land and they had the bibles. Now we have the bibles and they have the land.”

I supposed the alternative would be “when we engaged with the bosses from a position of weakness, we had the high moral ground and they had the money and decision-making power. Now we have no high moral ground and they have a fig leaf to disguise what they were going to do anyway.”

Hmm probably needs some work to make it pithier.

Mark Steel’s book is bittersweet. It’s basically him having his mid-life wake-up; his long-term relationship slowly falls apart, and he slowly, painfully wakes up to the fact that the Socialist Worker’s Party is a dreary, wrong and unsuccessful attempt at vanguardism. The quote I made into a youtube is just a v. minor aside. [Glad you liked it ]

Nicely done, the vid. Does it need a whole book?