In 1979 the Labour government was brought down over its failure to grant even limited autonomy to Scotland as had been promised in its manifesto. Disastrously, the following saw Margaret Thatcher installed as Prime Minister and ushered in the nightmare scenario of years of right-wing Tory government. Since then we've seen the systematic erosion of civil liberties, the destruction of the trade union movement and the wholesale dismantling of the welfare state and National Health Service - not to mention increased state control of television and the press, and the abolition of the right to silence.



Machine gun toting police on our streets

TV cameras watching your every move

George Orwell's "1984" is here and now



Tories win in '79 - come and join the dole queue line

Smash the unions crush the poor - welcome to 1984



Fuck everybody who voted Tory



Company director, vivisector

High court judge and poll tax collector



Fuck everybody who voted Tory



Yuppies who don't care about human need

People motivated only by their greed

Selfish, grasping fools who believe the media story,

Fuck everybody who voted Tory!



Right-wing, Christian, merchant banker

Dirty scab, fox hunting wanker



Fuck everybody who voted Tory



Police - army of the rich, Mary Whitehouse - fuckin' bitch

Fuck the Queen - the fuckin' slag, n' fuckin' Thatcher, fuckin' hag



Fuck everybody who voted Tory



Fuck everybody who voted Tory



"I can see the Labour Party coming to power in the next election - maybe, maybe not - who knows? But it doesn't really make a difference who's in power - the State remains the same, the structure is still there, they just tinker with it a little here and there."