where would i rather live? don't want to live anywhere else but the lakes or scotland - for all the faults,the ruling classes and the daily mail -this is my home. i would love french weather and employment law but could not live without fantastic countryside ,great music, good pubs and and friends and family. the idea that 'if this government does that i'm leaving' i will leave to the wealthy types who could not bear the injustice and indignity of having to pay 5% more tax on the top level of income tax that they don't pay. are they and you MtheGm not interested in trying to make their country fairer, better for everyone? are you happy to see the NHS and welfare system sold off and gutted? we can learn from other countries -french revolution, scandinavian social fairness, sound german economics -and they are good to visit. they all have their own radical traditions and we have ours and it is one in urgent need of revivial-we can't do that by writing sour-faced e-mails from the costa del ex-pat.