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If a business (bank) fails, we bail it out, it becomes successful using our money and we let it carry on while we cut our own throats trying to claw back the money we leant it, that's WRONG. If another business (railways) is privatised for purely ideological reasons and then delivers a service...

That minute of Monty Python is a more incisive critique of Uk Left politics over the past 50 years (maybe longer) than the entire output of their publications put together.

No, not all things. Not Coldplay or the Raj Palace takeaway in Mile Oak (hugely recommended, by the way!) But, big, important, economic things, like banks and railways, for instance, yes. A fair, non corrupt, democratically elected government, of course.

As I said, if you can nationalise a failing bank, you can nationalise a successful one. As for the banks and bankers going somewhere else, you'd have to have legislation stopping them being able to do that, of course! It does mean a rather different approach to that of Cameron and Smeg. I am...

Well, if you allow the banks to operate as private concerns as normal (even though our money has bailed them out and enabled them to function) the of course, they will find a way of passing such taxes on to us. If, however, you nationalise the banks (as has already been done - if you can...

Make the people who caused the crisis (the bankers and the banks) pay for it - rather than the rest of us. They are getting off scot free. But my solution implies a government with the guts and spine to take them on. This government has considerably less guts and spine than a freshly filleted sole.

Well said. Certain people in the City, quite calculatingly and deliberately, gambled with OUR money for their own personal gain and lost: this along with similar activity in America and elsewhere, is the root and branch of the financial crisis which we now face. In doing this they did nothing...