Elaine C Smith is an entertaining woman; she has a full page in the Sunday Mail
(31st December 2006).
Among her solutions for the alcoholic problems that are filling the accident and emergency departments are dearer prices in supermarkets for alcoholic drinks. I agree drunkenness at time leads to anti-social behaviour but does this apply to old age pensioners? Not the pensioners that write to her complaining their quiet pint is to dear, because they are the ones who don’t arrive at the A&E on Saturday and Sunday she thinks they should get their pint at a cheaper rate.
Well I did say she was an entertaining woman; I was thinking of asking her if raising the price of food with cheaper rates for slim people could solve the obesity problems plaguing the NHS.
Social problems need a lot more thought than that expressed in the Sunday Mail. Pensioner’s poverty and anti-social behaviour are an expression of an anti-social system called capitalism; I think socialism is worth a thought.
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Else-where in her column she writes:-
"Now don't get me wrong - I think people should earn decent money for what they do and that men and women who take the risk with their own money, ideas and dedication should be rewarded.
We should applaud the risk-takers as well as reward the workers who help them and turn up every day - it's all team work."
The very narrow-minded views that Marx was trying to impress upon the working class to reject and to replace with :-
Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!" they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wages system!"
Elaine C Smith is indeed an accomplished comedienne , and her politics are her biggest joke .
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