So the headline of the Sun of Wales - if such existed -might justifiably have shrieked on a sunny day in September this year, when, as an embittered former employee of the Allied Steel and Wire plant in Cardiff in 2002, was cast on a communal Welsh scrapheap as the direct result of New Labour's neglect and obduracy, my system received a welcome boost.
Erstwhile Labour leader and 'socialist peer' Lord Kinnock, the sometime Neil Kinnock, had a highly embarrassing run-in with semi-clothed pensions campaigners from Wales on a Bournemouth beach during the recent Labour Party Conference.
The campaigners, most wearing bathing trunks to emphasise the impoverished condition in which they find themselves as a result of the government's pathetically weak response to their plight, were confronted by the snappily-dressed 'people's aristocrat' looking for an individual who, his lordship felt, had 'been telling lies' about him.

The workers lost their final-salary pension schemes when their employers, Allied Steel and Wire called in the receivers in 2002 after which it was found that the company's pension fund had been completely plundered, leaving most to face a retirement and old age of penury.
The beach front confrontation backfired badly on the noble lord when one of the campaigners, John Benson, of Cardiff, called him a 'bloody traitor', a 'bloody disgrace' and told him blundy to 'bugger off'. The scene was witnessed by Tobias Ellwood, Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, and shadow Work and Pensions
Minister Chris Grayling, who had come to give support to the protesters, both onlookers when the starded nobleman came face-to-face with his critics. Entering into the spirit of the event Mr Ellwood suggested that it might be an appropriate gesture for his lordship to join the swimming-trunk-clad group for a dip in the briny, saying "Let's go. If he wants to come down here and participate, then let's get in there."
The cause of the robbed ASW workers, so admirably pioneered and tenaciously pursued by Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price and former AM Owen John Thomas, was highlighted when Mr Benson said "He has not supported us", and added in a wholly forgivable lapse of correct etiquette form " Mr Kinnock, you've not supported us." To which the flustered baron reassuringly replied "Yes I have... I will never ignore you."
'Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty in the County of Gwent' said afterwards about the protesters "They're very decent people and they're making a point..." Right on both counts your Lordship, so isn't it about time you and your frightfully concerned friends did something about it instead of pursuing a piffling irrelevance such as complaining about people 'telling lies' about you?
For this is what constitutes my pet hate. Turncoats of convenience, such as Kinnock, Ann Clwyd, Kim Howells, Rhodri Morgan, and the like. Once lions of the left; some, indeed, members of CND and the Communist Party whilst in the full flush of youth, they have all been subverted by the prospect of power or patronage within New Labour.
I shall never forget a mass meeting of redundant steel workers held in the Splott Railway Worker's Club shortly after the catastrophe of closure was announced. We were to be addressed by Rhodri Morgan. Tony Blair had recently given his active backing to that generous contributor to New Labour's party funds, the Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal. Mittal, whose company Ispot International had just closed down its Irish steel venture, was keen to buy out the Romanian steel industry. The success of his bid owed much to Blair's persuasive powers with the Romanian Government. Low payments to a reduced Romanian workforce and the subsequent drop in steel prices were to prove a contributory factor in Allied Steel's demise. Yet in our hour of need, we got no such support. Rhodri Morgan, flanked by minders and glancing at his watch told us that, since he had to attend a constituency surgery, he had litde time to spare with us. "My heart is with you boys," he said, "but my hands are tied by EU regulations. These don't allow any financial help to the steel and coal industry; and they're essential to ensure no European overproduction." 'Rebel' Rhodri then excused himself and departed to a storm of barracking.
The wind sown by politicians such as Kinnock and his ilk is now showing signs of being reaped as a whirlwind. Reactions such as those manifested on the beaches of Bournemouth by the persistent Cardiff ex-steelworkers are hilarious on the surface, but have a serious undertone.