Yes, Diamond may not have helped the current mob by sticking two fingers up at them.

The recession can be blamed on many things. Lawyers are debating the contribution of the system of precedent to the separation of risk from reward. But the failure to tax banks under B.Liar and Brown can squarely be laid on "New" Labour keeping its electoral promises not to raise direct taxation.

How surprising to hear the present mob saying that promises SHOULD have been broken. Surely they were all in favour of Brown pussyfooting around banks while he was chancellor and/or PM because the banks were then their mates. And now after a bit of tough talking they are still their mates "Nothing has been taken off the table" indeed. We know what that means. The Con-dems will do squat about the banks and the banks will keep stealing from you and me.

Like Thatcher used a recession to smash the working class and to re-introduce subservience to commands, now Condomhead creates a double-dip recession by taking money out of the economy - mostly from the working class. We know who HE has his sights on.