A Decade Ago, I Travelled To The East.

 I travelled to Asia ten years ago. Our guides throughout communist China and Vietnam were almost certainly 'party apparatchiks'.

Unhesitatingly, they told us about 'rising house prices' which made things unaffordable for many. When asked, they were happy to throw at us all the costs incurred for education, medical treatments and medicines too.
Listening to the loud-mouthed left in this country - you would be forgiven for thinking that in 'a socialist paradise' such things were FREE.
There was only one place on our travels where the 'social' side seemed dazzling - that was in 'wicked', ultra-capitalist Singapore!
Funny old life - innit?