Sergei Gotsmanov

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?

Yes accuse him of being gay. That should do it even if it is not very PC.

I am afraid that would mean we lost alot of Union leaders http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/tradeunionrichlist0611.pdf

The caring left love to joke about a dead Tory. They get a bit sensitive though if you post something that might in any way be interpreted as racist or sexist.

Teaching is your bread and butter and you are probably lucky to be able to have the time to work full time and have another business. You are right I am probably stupid enough to run several business's which is a real struggle at the moment. As for paying into a pension; I wish at the moment!

8K is not very much!

How many clerical workers with tewnty years experience are on £15k?

Are you Greek Revolution Saint?

You have a very blinkered view of the world outside of your institutionalised teaching world. Its pretty tough out there.

I would argue that people put their careers first so that they can give their children the best.

Personally I believe that the Euro will not exist in anything like the same format as it does currently.

Teachers like the rest of us should have to shoulder some of the stress of putting our economy on a sound footing.

Well I would argue that if four people turn up to the house of a law abiding family wearing balaclavas then that is a good enough reason for somebody to stick a knife in them. I see the chap is a serial offender who has been in prison; he will not reoffend again and the people of Salford will sleep safer in their beds.

and the patronising self righteous left are well represented.

Or even the outrage that was sparked when Cameron said 'calm down dear calm down dear' during PMQs. Obviously it is acceptable for Labour MPs to pull faces and Mock somebody with cerebral palsy but not to be seen to make a sexist remark however petty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2011/feb/08/disabled-people-paul-maynard-mps-discrimination it seems your friends on the left disagree.

You seem to have developed a stutter as well as an indepth understanding of the International finance. I am not comparing us to the 'PIGS' but god do you know how bad it is in Ireland? (I have no experience of the others). What are your thoughts on the cost of our borrowing when the world markets have a reduced belief that we will pay it back sooner rather than later. Anybody sensible should know that if we put our house in order then we can go forward again. You also do not have to win fifteen to one to understand that to have an affluent society for all you have to create wealth through your dealins with the rest of the world.

And when we do, who exactly is that will be able to afford to bail us out? Interested to know when you feel we should start to address our spiralling debt. Whatever your politics, a better society starts from a sound economic footing.

and you clearly have no idea of how the global markets view impacts on our economic wellbeing.

and Spain's?