Day 416

I like the song E.R.N.I.E. on that Madness album I got yesterday, btw: 'A thousand winners every week...' When it comes to prospects of improvement I must admit E.R.N.I.E. is where I feel my best chance is. Given that job applications are 50p win bets at 100-1, if that, my (est.) 1100-1 weekly chance of my Premium Bonds coming up is more promising. Don't laugh, they might win me £250,000 next week. .

Depressing prevailing media opinion recently that socialism is finished. Is it fuck! I heard a vox pop in the afternoon with various young Euro-wankers saying their ambitions are just to 'make money'. Get rid of the lifeboats, the first-class passengers say there won't be any more icebergs. These materially-obsessed would-be capitalists don't realise that their launching-pad of prosperity was made possible by the socialism of the past. Imagine a Britain in which (Goddess forbid!) the Glorious Dawn of 1945 never happened! Even worse than one in which a gang of capitalist fanatics have done their worst to dismantle its legacy! The message to all those who wish a fair distribution of wealth is 'never give up'. 'When all around seemed dark as night.'