Sergei Gotsmanov

I would suggest that it is her enemies that are far more obsessed with her. She sorted out the unions who held back the rest of the country. They made our manufacturing base uncompetitive and ultimately unviable. Who was going to invest in British manufacturing in the late 70's when the Unions ran the show? For that reason you can put much of the blame for the demise of our manufacturing on the Unions. She is having a high profile funeral because the British people voted her in three times.

It seems not http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321407/Sacked-teacher-Katharine-Birbalsingh-Im-glad-I-spoke-failing-schools.html

Congratulations. Harder work to begin with then they take care of each other.

Wise words on greed from the £60,000 a week footballer. Thanks for that Joey.

It takes a real loser to have to wait until their enemy dies of old age before they can celebrate.

10 year rule should be standard! End the career politician! Politicians should be motivated by a sense of duty.

Mugabe economics.

The more you borrow the more it costs. So we print money to pay off our debts? Do you think this has any repercussions? Understatement of the year; 'Greece faces a debt crisis'. No we face a debt crisis, Greece face debt Armageddon.

So how does their debt and our debt differ?

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-12-30/hollande-s-75-percent-tax-rate-loss-shows-limit-of-ability-to-tap-rich So if they shifted their earnings are you admitting that this took money out of the UK tax system? It discouraged people away from and drove them away. Why is it wrong to compare debt to Greece? What about Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal? What do all this markets have in common? What is the root cause of their problem? and you are advocating we go down the same route? So how come the Poles all found work?

Do you really believe that - just keep on spending and things will come right.... just like they have in Greece If you dispute my belief that taxing people takes away their incentive to work look to France and what the 75% tax has done to their economy. All the brightest and entrepreneurial people and a few celebs have moved away. I don't generally subscribe to 'research' - I look at the figures - the 50% tax on high earners drove people away and did not raise much money. Again it is quite straight forward - you are better to have 25% tax of a billion than 40% tax of half a billion. The Welfare state enabled Mick Philpot to not do a day's work for twenty years. It is why when the Polish came they had so many jobs to fill - they took the jobs that the welfare dependent could not be bothered to do.

Probably would get things going but there would be a pretty big exodus of money abroad.

You have to generate wealth before you can spend it. The trouble with the left is that they do not believe that people should be able to keep the money that they generate so they take away the incentive to make it. The Nation then becomes poorer as a result. I do understand what you are trying to say I just have a definition of investment in the future. At what point do we stop investing? Another 100billion? Perhaps 200 billion? What do you think?

I am afraid I do not buy into this 'investing in the future'. Actually all we are doing is borrowing to such an extent that our children and grand children will have to pay it off. Do you really believe that there is this sort of Nania around the corner where we will all be affluent again.We are seeing a shift in wealth from the West to the East. I believe that people should spend their money not governments and that low tax economies attract business and generate wealth.

Quite right. It is quite simple you spend what you can afford. Where we probably differ is I would say that you then have a low tax economy that attracts lots of business and entrepreneurs to create wealth to increase spending.

and incidentally the left wing think thanks are funded by you and me or trade unions - that is why they have no understanding that you have to make money not borrow it.

This was the game when Matthew Harding came down and got MLT to sign an autograph and then held it aloft to the Chelsea fans pretending he had signed a contract - I think....

I found this somewhere An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment: 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Eloquently argued. Talk me through Hollande's strategy in France?

I think we should all be building tractors.

Why not make a play on Oh when the Saints Go Marching in I want to be in that number. How about 'In that Number'

Will always remember his goal of the century description of MLT's last minute equaliser against Newcastle in the nineties

I wish you well Dr Who but I have to say that you cannot open a shop that just sells Cheesecake.

He is the leading English goal scorer is he not

Good luck to you - I like the concept but suspect it will always be a sideline