Sergei Gotsmanov

Well mine are a little too young to judge! Our politics may be different but we have the same aspirations for our children.

Well it might surprise you BTF that I am going to opt for the other route something that means that I will miss out on a lot of the finer things in life.

err concentrate Verbal you started it.

So thats a no then. I am beginning to think there is a bigger gap than I thought between how high you hold yourself in regard and the reality.

So do I read into the last statement that the private school system is a welcome subsidy for the state system? People who make such a sacrifice for their children should be applauded in my opinion but I suspect BTF that you may have a contrasting view!

I am surprised that somebody with such a remarkable intellect cannot identify hypocrisy when it stares out at him. On one hand begruding the 'predatory, malign influence of Murdoch' (another entry for Pseuds corner?) and then telling us that those that feel the BBC has a similar unhealthy influence should shut up and pay.

So would those teachers have to be paid for by the State if there were no private schools?

alright alright BTF - I refer you to the reply I gave earlier; the BBC is supposed to be impartial because it is funded by the state the others are commercial and have to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.

It depends if you take the line that children who go to private schools are saving the state system 'huge' amounts by paying for their education and not relying on the State.

So to conclude, the public should be protected from the wicked Murdoch media but should have to pay for the BBC where a cultural left wing bias exists because you happen to sympathise with their politics. You would make a good dictator.

Its not a big idea. Its about choice and not having to subsidise an organisation that I do not want to. How do you think Murdoch implements his system?

So to conclude, its one rule for those that want to keep the wicked influence of Murdoch at bay and another that want to question the left wing bias of the BBC. I admire your honest hypocracy.

Its should their problem not the consumers.

We are not asking wether the Beeb is good value just whether paying should be compulsory.

Which of the quotes is made up then Pedg? Remove your blinkers.

If I recall the Beeb had to pull one of their adverts for being threatening a few years ago. You may feel it is value for money but what if I don't? I still have to pay; that is wrong in my book. (I actually agree with you that it is good value for money)

So Verbal the quotes on the right hand side are made up?

I am not saying that any broadcaster is impartial BTF just saying that the BBC is generally accepted by many for having a liberal left wing bias. You felt it wasn't; I am argueing that it is. Sky news has a right to be impartial because people have the choice to subscribe to this. The BBC opt to use intimidating adverts to enforce the tax that keeps them in business.

Beeb is not impartial - ask Peter Sissons. http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

There is a pub near Whitchurch - the Watership Down Inn, they used to sell their rabit pie with 'youv'e seen the film now eat the cast'.

No because it upset our important American trading partners. Remove your horse hair vest and understand that we have to trade with as many people as possible. I mean where do you stop; what about the Chinese? How can we do business while Tibet remains oppressed? Those Russians are a bit corrupt and the way they treat the Chechens! Guatanomo Bay is an embarraseement for the Americans. God we fought an illigal war in Iraq, we are lucky that anybody trades with us. In your world we would probably only export to Luxembourg.

No I can cope with long words. A startling injudicious statement from somebody on a different intellectual plateau.

I really do think that you should go on fifteen to one Verbal or have you already won it? I am not questioning your clearly broad knowledge on all things but you seem to have ignored my point. Somebody will sell them arms and I would like it to be us not the French.

Do you ever read Pseud's corner in private eye?

Just because you sell them arms does not mean that you support them. I am sure the famillies of the Vickers workers do not share your self righteous indulgence.