Sergei Gotsmanov

I despise banning anything it goes against all my instincts . I find Muslim extremism unpalatable but argue against it do not ban it. If we have a society that incorporates the Muslim faith or any belief than we cannot just cherry pick which parts we find unsavoury and legislate to outlaw them because one day the wrong people will be making that decision. Who are we to judge other people. Wear your Burka with pride if that represents what you believe in; nobody should decide how you think or dress.

I dislike radical Islam but recognise that mainstream Islam is a force for good. The EDL seems to endorse an aggressive form of prejudice against a lot of good people.

In fairness you come across as rather stupid especially as if you backed the horse each way you would have made good money. I would suggest that cut back on your posts or at least get your calculator out before posting.

But you need to get a magpie from another area for best results.

I was the cleaner at the post office Depot in Andover. I have never left a loo anything but spotless since. I always remember the sense of despair having got the loos gleaming by 7.00am and then seeing a postie strolling towards the gents with the Daily Mirror under his arm. Colleagues were great.

Our numbers are sadly well down this year. I am surprised there has been no publicity about it. Their arrival was quite staggered this year so whether that means they had a bad trip over.

39 and the on the verge of a new era

I thought Badger was in IT and having a tough time of it because his team had been cut back. I would have expected teacher numbers to have increased in the current climate.

I am not being controversial Badger and I can understand your ire but if I could earn 33% more in the private sector I would.

And how did you mean for that statement to be interpreted?

Hindsight would make life much easier. Did you read about tulips in the 1700's I think.

You are being quite liberal with the word 'they'.

The EU would love our banks to go to Frankfurt. I agree about banks damaging enterprise but it is not their investment arms are doing this. You seem to think I like banks; I hate them.

I admire your enterprise; it will be good for you and the country as a whole.

Will you call me gay like you did with Jackonory if I tell you that thousands in the city lost their jobs, almost all took pay cuts and bonuses stopped. They only started again when they began to make money and consequently paid more taxes. I am sorry that you hope I am seriously inconvenienced by the strike tomorrow. I think that reflects badly on you.

No I am simply saying that if you screw them they will go somewehere else and their tax will go to somebody else. This country will be rebuilt by hard work and enterprise.

Try and venture out of the classroom some time. The real world is somewhat different to how your stereotypical and prejudiced world seems to perceive.

In terms of our recovering economy that means nothing. It a bit like saying to the Germans in 1945 'well you voted for him'.

What before the unions and Thatcher screwed our manufacturing base?

No I have not seen much about the brain drain. You seem to be cherry picking what to reply to. What you forget is that alot of us aspire to the same social goals as yourself but believe that you have to create the right environment for the private sector to flourish to achieve it.

Or that bastion of the left the Guardian http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/the-guardians-rank-hypocrisy-on-tax-avoidance/ Or David Miliband http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100082402/david-milibands-clever-little-tax-avoidance-scheme/ Well Digby Jones reckons that the city contributes 20% of total tax. Now that is a lot. Now I resent the Bankers as much as the next man but I also see the fact that we have a thriving bank sector to put us back on course. Would you rather they moved to Frankfurt?

Very sad for you. Whatever the personal view of the action you should not have lost your job over this. I look forward to a new book on Saints!

A rather shallow argument VFTT to counter the billions of tax that the city brings in. Tax is not some voluntary donation you make if you can get out of it.

and sadly it will be a healthy banking sector that helps gets us out of it. Fred the Shred would have been slung in jail in China and quite rightly so. He arrived and made 18,000 redundant and then screwed up and made another 18,000 lose their jobs.

And the tax generated from the city?