Socialist nutter

A funny thing happened to me this morning...

A funny thing happened to me this morning on my way to work. I was waiting for a train at Hucknall railway station when this dodgy geezer attempted to hand me a union leaflet, he walks up asks me if I know why the country has a huge debt?
"Yes, it's because we've just had ten years of Labour government" I point out. (Labour were the recent socialist government of the UK).
He denies this scientific fact and points to a graph of debt plotted against time in his union leaflet, which has a huge spike at around World War Two (a decoy from the Labour government's disastrous record).
I said, when did the last labour government get in, so he points to the graph and the debt is low at that point.
I pointed to the end of the graph, and showed him that his own graph proved that when Labour lost power they had burdened the country with a massive debt! His own chart proved it, he could not deny it!
The train arrived.
He protested, "Debt is still increasing you know!"
I said, "Yes, it is". (Which is unfortunate but true).
However my agreeing with him on this point paradoxically seemed to irritate him even more, possibly because it meant that I was using reason and facts, and not just being contrary.
He said, as I was boarding the train, "I hope you get made redundant!" and trudged away.
Not one to miss a chance of a well deserved put down, I said, sarcastically, "you're a nice fellow aren't you? You're a typical socialist, you hate everybody".
As the train drove past, I saw him on the platform, still trudging, presumably waiting to ambush more commuters. He didn't look very happy. Now that I think about it, he looked as miserable and dour as Gordon Brown.
Well, it made my morning, I can tell you. But this surreal encounter with the Union man was further proof that people don't learn, people do not understand economics and politics, they are blind to facts. And if this guy is paid to do so, then he is just a cynical salesman of left wing get-us-into-more-debt politics.