While Kieran Allen has many good points as a devoted socialist and chooses his friends carefully, he is easily fooled by police agents. He uses a good if wrong-headed bon mot in the first edition of The Politics of James Connolly. He claims in an off-the-cuff way, "Where the English go today,the world follows tomorrow." Wrong!Wrong!Wrong! The English self-employed and those in the pay of the drugs gangs sent by the Northern Ireland Police Board and Northern Department of Health to bait socialists,trades unionists and radicals, found out that fact this week. Their social security benefits which make up the remainder of their income have been reduced by £50-£70 per week as the Germans did with Hartz IV in 2002-2004 to clear the street-crawlers from Germany's streets and dung out the public houses. Germany hoped to send the curious Poles back to a ruined colliery in Silesia rather than allow those lusty parasites free passage through Germany. Worse still, Britain and Irel...