"But it is just rather silly & pathetic to denounce them as 'criminals',"
You are right of course Mike; it is criminal to throw stones and damage property, but not to bleed a nation dry so people go hungry, die of neglect and lack of adequate medical cover and are made homeless and jobless - funny old world you seem to be in favour of.
"campaign to get them voted out of office"
And replace them with what? A bunch of your conservatives (under another name) have just been voted out and replaced with an equally privelege-driven bunch - Thatcher's offsprings supported in office by a party ready to sell itself to the highest bidder - which leaves the rest of us where exactly?
By the time the next election comes around (and just assuming we are not presented with another Tweedledum-Tweedledee choice) the homelessness, inadequate health, eduaction, pension will be a done deal and those who have had no part in the present mess will have been milked dry in order to pay for the excesses.
Are there none of you supporters of the status quo with the bottle to defend the past few years behaviour by those you so keenly support, or is it just "ah well, what's done's done" - or maybe, to borrow an old Liverpool phrase "Ding-ding, I'm on the bus"?
Jim Carroll