Richard III just mentioned nationalising the banks without compensation.

I suppose by that logic if I lost my Jag I could just drive off in one of your knackered old Volvos and if you complained, shoot you.

As I type, I notice the Google ads below the text box. They are for tax advice companies... Gives me a giggle anyway.

I note someone else complained when I said that ISAs are not tax avoidance. His complaint was that he couldn't afford to save. Well obviously my comment wasn't aimed at you then.

Reading many posts in this thread, I see envy wrapped up a a strive for equality. I have two issues with equality;

1. Orwellian concerns about some pigs being more equal than others.

2. A recent bill that this government saw fit to carry through but was presented prior to the election by Harriet Harperson, possibly the most irrelevant yet dangerous Minister this country has seen.

I am a firm believer in equal opportunity, but not some of the more sinister interpretations of equality put out by people who would claim to be of the liberalish left.