""I do find taking the example of that great states person Mrs Thatcher both sustains me and inspires me..you should try it some time wizzjet.""

Well sonny, if you took the trouble (or possessed the intelligence) to apprise yourself of the facts concerning (without the supefluous "e") those whom you so despise, you might have known that in addition to having retired from paid employment, I am in fact a Tory who probably knows a great deal more than a jumped up schoolboy about the politics of the 20th century.

I never needed to indulge in self aggrandisement by inventing spurious credentials, and imagined skills, having paid my own way by constant employment, without a gap from 1957 till 2006.

When you grow up, I hope you will have developed a self image which will render this behaviour unnecessary, but I have some doubts about the likelihood.

Don T.