Sergei Gotsmanov

Quite right. A Blue Peter badge does not keep people in work.

Tragic news. He should still be playing. In my 30+ years of supporting Saints he was in the top three defenders. Goal against Ipsich springs to mind. RIP.

eyes still well up when I think of what happened to Hazel

That is quite a gamble. If you ever go into a bar in the city you will see that it is a pretty multinational set up. As I said Franfurt is waiting! I firgot about Lehman Bros; that would have tipped them over. I hate banks but they are a neccessary evil. They even charged me £150 for the priviledge of having a small overdraft facility on my business account!

Not really splitting hairs. Barclays were not bailed out; that is a very significant difference to the other banks. As I stated before they played by the rules. I do not believe in changing the rules after the event. Do you think they paid more corporation tax in 2010? Mr. Wolfe - very bourgeois

Calm down Wolfie, did I say that? They played by the rules; as I asked before, do you think they would volunteer to pay more or invest in their business with the subsequent spin offs for all of us. Barclays were not bailed out by the tax payer, so we have less of a right to dictate to them. Once again you seem to be getting into a frenzied state when somebody offers a different opinion to yourself. I am simply stating that unpalatable as it may seem we cannot clobber the banks as is the temptation but have to nurture this valuable cash cow.

Why do you not celebrate the fact that company made £12billion and the subsequent added benefits and direct and indirect tax consequences. You display a very shallow and one dimensional perspective.

Actually I thought that was pretty disgusting but they are only working under the rules. Do you expect organisations to volunteer to pay more taxes? Blame Gordon Brown for that. The point that I am making is that the city is critical to the economy and you have to tread carefully or we will lose a considerable cash cow.

Sadly I disagree, tax too hard and the bankers will go. The temptation is to demand some kind of retribution for their role in bringing the global economy to its knees but in reality we would be cutting off our nose to spite our faces. We need the revenue that the city geneerates and have to make sure that it ticks all the boxes for the city big wigs. The Germans would give their eye teeth to have Franfurt as the main European financial centre.

I agree. This is Eastern Bloc dictatorship stuff.

If there are a thousand born again Christians who all see somebody drop a tenner and a thousand people selected randomly from the street who all see somebody drop a tenner, which group would return the most tenners. You have a monkey to have a bet at even money - now where is your money going?

I did not say they would not return the money, I said the Christian was more likely to.

I am not asking which is better.

They were obviously not practising Catholics. It surprises me that you believe that they were men driven by a strong faith. Its a struggle to engage somebody who is so bigoted against Christianity that thye cannot recognise that it can be a great force for good.

Obviously not.

They were hardly practising their faith were they! That is how I define somebody who has a religious faith. Makes sense to me. Sorry you struggle to understand the point.

In today's Britain if you drop a tenner a god fearing person would be more likley to return it to you than somebody is not.

So which God did the Nazi's worship then? Very puzzled how you came to that conclusion. I merely stated that religious teachings themselves do not cause human violence but create the groups that exercise their human instinct to fight. So you think that Martin McGuinness and Mad Dog Adair were devout followers? There are mainstream interpretations and more radical interpretations. The problems come when radical intepretations become more mainstream.

On an every day 2011 level that is a fair statement.

The Nazi's were not religious they tolerated christianity. Religion creates the tribes, that generate the enemies, that allows the human instinct to fight come out. It is the interpretation of the religion that causes the problems.

So are you more likely to be mugged by somebody who is deeply religious or somebody who is not?

Well I am delighted that there is more accountability than I thought. I think politics should be done out of duty and not as a career. I like people to have lived in the real world before they enter politics. All sides are now guilty of this.

Generally in my opinion people who answer to a God are more likely to have better morale compass than those that answer to other men. That is a very general statement though.

Always the first to embrace debate.

Thats why the National socialists and the Communists butchered so many people in the thirties and forties. Not forgetting Pol Pott. They had nobody to answer to but themselves and the State.