Worjackie

Not at all. The banks may be going through a tough time at the minute but we all trust them with our wages, savings and pensions. The banks are crucial to our society and we should support them through the bad times as the nature of a capitalist economy is that there will be highs and lows, so we can expect a boom time again in a few years time. There's nothing deferential or forelock tugging about wanting the best, most-qualified people to do the most important jobs in our society.

From your posts it's clear you don't live in Sheffield, in fact you don't even live in this country. So you obviously don't know what you're talking about and have just bought into the media hysteria about crime being out of control. I can quite happily walk through the city centre any time night or day and not feel in the slightest bit threatened.

Not really. I believe that there is a ruling class in our country that is born and bred to lead and is therefore best qualified when deciding how the country should be run. Someone who's had a private education at, say, Eton and then gone on to get a degree at Oxbridge will understand far more about economics than some working class person educated in a state school. Besides, power always corrupts the working classes. Look at John Prescott for example, who went from being a union shop steward to an ermine-clad Lord getting the taxpayer to pay for his two Jaguar cars and big houses in the country!

Ah, yes, I knew someone would bring up the incapacity benefit claimants. The people off sick with a "bad back" who can quite happily pop down the gym or do a few odd jobs for cash-in-hand payment. Or the people off sick with "stress" or "depression" who can be seen down their local every night having a laugh with their mates. Be honest, we all know people like that. What the cuts have made clear is that a life on the sick sitting on your backside at home all day while the state funds your lifestyle is no longer an option. There may be a handful of genuine incapacity benefit claimants, but just because a disability prevents you doing some kind of job doesn't mean you're unable to do any job. Even someone in a wheelchair is capable of working in a shop or an office.

And yet the poor people you speak of always seem to be able to find the cash to buy booze, fags and takeaways and own massive plasma TVs, Xboxes, mobile phones and the latest designer trainers. Get real - there is no genuine poverty in the UK. We all have enough money to pay for food, shelter and clothing, it's just that some would rather spend their money on something else.

Why is that any concern of yours? He could be self employed for all you know. As for me, I just happen to have an understanding boss who doesn't mind me going online every now and then so long as the work gets done!

Why is that silly? On a global scale we are.

Why do you hate the idea of being rich so much? Your view seems to sum up the difference between left and right wing thinking. Lefties want everyone else to be as poor as they are. Right wing politics is all about giving people the opportunity to be rich.

I think it's entirely right and proper that members of the government should have substantial personal wealth. It means they're free of the politics of envy and jealousy that infests the loony left and enables them to relate to the businessmen who create jobs and wealth in this country.

Why is Spindrift obsessed with taking every thread off topic? This thread is about a specific animal cruelty case not child abuse or some people bombing each other in Russia.

He's a decent attacking player but needs to work on the defensive side of his game. There's no point a left back bagging a hat trick if he's already been part of a defence that's 4-0 down by the break!

Not at all, but if your only argument is "well as least he's not as unprincipled as Nick Clegg", then it shows he doesn't have much to offer. It says it all that Red Ed is ashamed of being a socialist to the extent that he daren't been seen to be supporting the cause in case the press write nasty things about him. Politics should be about doing what you feel is right, not what you feel will make you popular.

Either that or a man who abandons all his principles as soon as he gets a bit of power. But then saying one thing and doing another is what being a Labour MP is all about.

It's also entirely appropriate since he was elected labour leader on account of the unions' block vote. In return for that Red Ed will need to do exactly as his union paymasters tell him.

If you think it works, it does. If you think it doesn't work, it doesn't.