Sergei Gotsmanov

So we sack our soldiers then so you can retire at 60? These guys are acting in your national interest.

how many teachers was it that have been sacked for not being good at their jobs?

Please do not lecture us on maths when we are advocating balancing the Nation's books.

Job security is quite an incentive - how many teachers have been sacked in the last 15 years for not being up to the job? How many people in the private sector would have kept their job for being a convicted football hooligan? (I acknowledge the fact that it was an absurdely political conviction)

So you expect company's to not look for tax loopholes? They save money, and pay shareholders who spend money and keep the economy rolling.

Yes I thought the BBC would. Gordon Brown raided private sector final salary pensions to pay for his bloated public sector client base.

The private sector pays for the public sector. Make the private sector flourish and everything clicks into place. However distasteful you find entrepreneurs and bankers, they fund everything. The unions contributed as much as Maggie did to the dismantling of the manufacturing base of the country.

Wales I think.

You seem to have forgotton to mention how to finance this all. You seem to have a Greek mentality; one day the bail outs will stop.

With the marxist ideology of so many teachers I suspect that many kids will just leave school and go and live in a commune.

Dislikeable maybe but not stupid.

Yes but it is a bit like handing over a tenner and then getting £2.50 back. You cannot keep doing that.

You have to come up with a better argument than tax the private sector more. Tax and red tape are4 the biggest deterent for business and we have them both in abundance.

Well I can only judge you on your posts but I would suspect he is brighter than you even if he is a wicked tory toff!

Now I am not an economist Mikey but I think it works something like this; the private sector pays for the public sector. The Public Sector now employs over 40% of the workforce this is not sustainable so you have to get the private sector more efficient so you can get more people from the public into the 'productive sector'.

In fairness Mikey even if you were studying economics at Cambridge I think Osbourne is better placed to judge. Just because he is a toff does not make him stupid.

Mick and BTF these are truelly awful scenarios to endure. It would be my worst nightmare and I like you would rather the wife made the decision for me. My only concern is if the decision is taken out of the hands of families or if bad advice is given. The worst scenario would be if less caring families opted for the route of convenience. It is a minefield.

Get the muckspreaders out.

You are slagging people off in hypothetical situation. If you do some reserach you will find that the King and Quieen stayed in London during the Blitz.

For a brief moment I am in your camp Verbal. There is a nasty whiff about this.

Can we expand and be less cryptic?

So why was he banned?

Have I missed something - where is Deppo?

I am not yet forty but the first time I watched Remembrance Sunday there was an old boy who had fought in the Boer war.

The convoys would have been horrific. All that bravery without the glamour.