Sergei Gotsmanov

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?

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.