keith,
i have no doubt you are not a supporter of the BNP or are a friend of trolls.
i understand your need to be vindicated, and to answer anything you find to be offencive to you. but please for the sake of simple minded folk like me that are reading this, let some of it go?

it isn't about figures, it is about public perception.
although facts and figures are very important, what is even more so is explaining what they mean in a way that us normal people understand.

thanks for the post richard, i am going to have to read that about three times before i can understand it, but i am grateful for you trying to explain.
it isn't that i am thick, just not up to posh words.

i know the banks are mostly to blame for the recession, but the government hasn't exactly built up a reserve of money.
i remember something about selling our gold when prices were low, because they were so desperate for funds?

see, if i was an outsider reading this, i think i would have been put off by us lot assuming i knew the facts to begin with and that i understood the situation completely.

i respect your factual brains and ways of thinking, but most of us need things spelt out abit more clearly. as does the public.

take care all

jade x x x x x