SOCIALISM: My Part in its Downfall

Now also out in paperback:

The river ran with red: Neil Cullan McKinlay was 16 when he began an apprenticeship as a marine plumber on Glasgow’s Red Clydeside. His father’s early Communism helped get the 16-year-old state schoolboy into a shipyard in a hotbed of political radicalism. 

The firebrand orator Jimmy Reid later sipped Glenfiddich malt whisky in comradeship with his father as they mourned the loss of these yards. The Red Clydeside built the greatest ocean liners in the world, the Queen Mary, the QE2, but it had a fatal flaw that led to its ultimate collapse: the false religion of Socialism.

SOCIALISM: My Part in its Downfall borrows the idea for its title from Spike Milligan. He counters Socialism with a plethora of quotes, antidotes, and anecdotes. His shipyard wit tips its welder’s helmet to the tin hat humour of Gunner Milligan for the sake of comedy relief from such a serious subject.

July, 2000, The Herald.
The article mentions my dad visiting Jimmy Reid

Neil has worked since in diverse vocations: Domestic Plumber, Railway Pipefitter, Presbyterian Minister, and Army Chaplain. He uses his vast experience from working in three countries, Scotland, Canada, and Australia, to fuel his blast furnace against Socialist creep in the West.

Socialism has sucked the guts out of the West by breaking God’s law: Thou shalt not steal. This book tells how free enterprise sets us free of its coils.


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