I know I'm responding to a troll, but Social Darwinism, has been largely debunked as a theory , the great secret to the human animals success has been cooperation. If you actually look at how hunter gatherer societies that still exist opporate, food is shared out among the entire tribe and people work together without screwing over their neighbours.

I used to work for a UK government contractor, some of the people I worked with are very very talented people, the problem is the massive layers of useless middle management and procedures designed to stop anything getting done not the coders and techies. That being said, despite being one of those "pinko commie" types, I'm far happier in the private sector where I can actually get stuff done.

Thats utter rubbish, I'm from a mining town near the Notts/Derbyshire boarder, most in Derbyshire struck and many in Nottinghamshire didn't, as a result we were the frontline of the Miners strike, and I know a lot of former miners that were part of the strikes.

Thatcher closed the mines because she wanted to break the political power of Trade unions, the unions had brought down the previous Tory goverment. The pits would still be economically viable today if they had not been closed.

As you can see from , we are now importing a large amount of our coal to fuel our existing stock of Coal fired power stations.
http://www.edfenergy.com/energyfuture/energy-gap-security/coal-and-the-energy-gap-security

To claim the miners were luddites who didn't want change is untrue, they were fighting to save the communities they lived in from a political attack, not to lock the country in the industrial dark ages.

In the UK this week our Prime Minister lost the vote to bomb Syria because MPs from all sides (even his own party ) rebelled due to the strength of public opinion. The last time a PM lost a vote to go to war was the US war of independence. Democracy can work in the age of the Internet.

It's because America loves free speech so much, they want to hear every word of free speech in the entire world. America F *ck Yea!