What is perhaps more interesting still is the apparently cosy relationship between certain elements directly linked to the next Labour administration in waiting, and the apparent advocates of the very same measures that were to lead to the over policing of everything from Stop the War Demos, to the enforced participation by Jobseekers in the government’s flagship ‘New Deal’ initiative: itself every bit as blind and oppressive as the present day treatment of the sick and the disabled by Tory contractors Atos. This kind of oppressive conduct, not only from the likes of G4S itself but also their public sector ‘partner agencies’, was to leave the Labour Party every bit as tainted with the blood and tears of the oppressed as the Major and Thatcherite administrations that it had replaced.

The presence of Rachel Briggs among the Associate Editors on the board of the Labour linked on-line journal of political science ‘Renewal’, alongside Editorial Advisors the Milliband Brothers, perhaps indicates that there will be little or no change to the status quo as far as G4S are concerned following the near certain victory of a Labour government in the wake of the imminent collapse of the Coalition. Amongst Briggs’s numerous claims to fame is her involvement with ‘Hostage UK’, an organization chaired by one time Special Envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Terry Waite, whose own unfortunate involvements with Colonel Oliver North were perhaps a major contributory factor in his own unfortunate kidnapping at the hands of Islamic Jihad in January 1987.

Of further interest perhaps is the role Briggs is supposed to have played as Head of the Identity Programme between 2003 and 2008 at the political think tank Demos. Other interesting credits that can be found on her on-line c.v. include a senior research fellowship in Counter-terrorism and Security at the Royal United Services Institute. One wonders what the late George Orwell would have thought of that! For those of us who have experienced the hobnailed jackboot of the State pressing down on throats from above at first hand it really doesn’t matter on which foot that boot is being worn! All that matters is that whoever is in power in Britain today, those of us who are being deliberately kept at the bottom by the flotsam and jetsam at the top are likely to experience the same kind of oppressive conduct from those in control in the event of the election of David Milliband as we are from the likes of George Osborne and Ian Duncan Smith!