"Ringer, if you don't understand relative poverty you are not well equipped to comment here."

I think, Richard Bridge, that if I had a chip on my shoulder as large as yours I'd be a leeetle less patronising. I also think that if I'd been accused of laxity in my use of English then I'd take extra care to say what I meant. Where were you talking about relative poverty?

"The English government has been told by the IMF to reduce its debt, a debt that was caused by bankers and financiers"

What nonsense, Good Soldier Schweik. The debt is owed by the government, not by bankers. Its cause was overspending by Gordon Brown. Even at the peak of the cycle he was running a deficit (but then, that didn't matter, did it, as he'd got rid of boom and bust? Oops!)