Sergei Gotsmanov

I am sure you are well intentioned Pap but please try and live in the real world. You create wealth by producing goods and services and selling them. Sadly we create very few goods nowdays so we rely heavily on services that is why the government is keen to protect the banking industry.

You seem to be incable of understandimng that business creates wealth and that pays the bills so you have to encourage as much of it as possible. We cannot live off outreach cordinators. How else can you judge it? We had a general election two years ago. So you were expecting a quick fix? So you clearly feel that we can continue to spend more money than we have. I suggest you go to Spain where somebody told me the other day that middle class families gather at the end of the day to pick up the scaps left in the village square after market day. These is a modern day tragedy created by economicly incompetent, mainlyn left leaning politicians.

Yes sorry the SAS. Admitting you are wrong is easy Buctootim.

He was in the SBS

I would suggest that there are around 32% hard core Tory voters based on the last few elections; thats around 2% more than Labour- thats if you assume that by core you mean the level by which the % will not drop any lower in a defetaed election. If you just take England then the Tory core rises significantly. Labour relies on Welsh and Scottish votes to win elections. If you did your background reading you would discover that on the same %age vote in 2010 Labour won a sizeable majority in 2005. Hopefully boundary changes will make this process more democratic. Whilst pandering to your prejudices and stereotypes you also miss the core theme of the current Tory party and that is to sort out the UK finances. Not by spending more but by spending what as a nation we can afford and by creating a business environment that lures in investment from all over the world and by encouraging enterprise to build new markets abroad. Sadly our European neighbours are not guided by such principles and the Eurozone is a mess, making it difficult to grow our economy at the moment. Who will win the next election? Its a difficult one because many will not forgive the Lib Dems yet Miliband is pretty much unelectable. He may however simply be elected by default helped by Lib Dem votes. Cameron is a good communicator but he may be drowned out by the tedious Tory right and be unable to get the meassage through that we have to sort our finaces out.

Tokyo it is well known that in global downturns and times of global uncertainty people put their money into gold.

From what I know, the original contracts were quite hard to get and this is probably more to blame. As it happens, apparently this year if anything is needed now then you can name your price.

I would contest that I am being silly here. I don't think it is that companies have something to hide it is more the fact that smaller producers and suppliers do not have the resources to meet all of these new requirements. Why should a small cheesemaker in Devon have to spend money packaging his cheddar with a sticker that tells people not to eat it? I am sorry but more labelling inevitably means more packaging. I cannot see why 6 tomatoes or three leeks or five slices of ham etc etc are packaged in plastic containers. It is lunacy and justy creates more waste. I do not think people are stupid. Lazy yes.

I think as a nation we tend to forget how much support Moseley had particularly in the higher echelons of society.

I am sorry Buctootim but call me naive or not but I believe that 99.9% people who are obese have managed to make the connection with their diet and their weight. We do not need to be patronised by expensive think tanks puuting traffic lights on our food.

Thats fine by why should this be compulsory. If it gives retailers a competitive advantage then that is great for them, they can introduce the labelling and people like yourself can shop there and buy products with the appropriate labeling. I will be then able to shop somewhere else where because there is less labelling the products are cheaper and because there is less labelling there is less packaging and I can then lower my carbon foot print. The trouble is, as Buctotim's post highlights, this is about pointless but expensive Think tanks creating red tape and regulation to handicap business and to justify there jobs.

All of it is nonsense based on the assumption that most people are stupid. Tell me when my food goes off do not tell me what to eat.

and the language of a bigot.

You must be on a different intellectual level.

Its a shame you have been to a couple of funerals recently - you could have doubled your attendance. Just joking. I assume that you are not being that serious.

That is very good.

This amused me.

In fact democracy has facilitated Europe's downfall because to get elected you have to promise more than mob you are up against. To achieve that you have to borrow more and the spiral continues. How long do people really think that China is going to sit back and let their people slave away for next to nothing when the people they have effectively lent the money too are working a 37hr week, have six weeks holiday a year and are retiring at 60.

My god you are right. Can I add no celebrities.

We should be cutting back on politicians.

If I saw 2000 beers on offer then as I say I would check the sell by date. Drink Leffe because when in Rome and all that.

I do recall he did at one point relent at admit that England could not leave him out.

I would check the sell by dates. Drink some Leffe. It may be owned by one of the global players but it is very nice.

I think you misread my response

Well they were pretty spot on with the Euro.