Most people seem happy to ‘soak the rich’ but don’t understand the concept of a ‘rich pensioner’.

If people are very well off then they should be taxed a little bit more to help those who are NOT well off.

The big issue (not the magazine!) is that most rich people have arranged their finances in a way that is (a) legal and (b) means that they pay little or no tax.

Reducing the tax rates for the rich should mean that they will find it cheaper to pay more tax than to pay for legal tax avoidance schemes.

The evidence does seem to be that the lower the taxes are on the rich then the more money is collected in tax for the benefit of those less well off in the UK.

But most of the attacks on the Conservatives seem to be politically motivated by people who are not really interested in the poor, just interested in getting back into power!!

We see Greece and all its woes and we were so,  so close to that because of the inept (in my view) management of the UK economy by New Labour, Blair and Brown.

The next four or five elections will all take place with the UK in serious debt and unable to spend money on many infrastructure  projects, benefits, pensions, housing etc that we should have because a huge amount of our money will still be going on clearing Labour’s debts.

The debt figures are massive. We still have to pay for many of the new hospitals, schools etc that Labour built on borrowed money. Other projects that Labour undertook need vast amounts of public money to clear the debts. Many of these debts were excluded from the UK debt figures so people would not realise how bad the UK economy actually was!!

It looked good at the time but these debts need to be paid back! And the debts and the interest on the debts are paid back by the taxes we pay!

The slogan ‘there is no money’ will haunt Labour at election times and, hopefully, keep them out of power for a long time. And if people don’t like this forecast just think of what Greece is going through. We were so, so close to going the same way!

The shareholders are the ones who approve such salaries and bonuses.

If people want to object then buy shares and turn up and vote!

That is the right thing to do in a democracy. If people are NOT in a democracy and complain about the leaders salary they would probably get jailed or shot! – our system is better!

But what is really important and really fair, is that all salaries and bonus payments are subject to tax in the UK without any tax saving schemes (legal or otherwise) being used to minimise the tax being paid!

Ordinary workers cannot take advantage of these schemes and big company bosses should not be allowed to either!

And those who complain about these fat cat salaries and benefits, just remember that some of the trade union leaders are doing just the same as the bankers!

The RBS debt alone is apparently twice the amount owed by Greece and, yes, a lot of the debt is owed by Greece so we won’t get that back!

If we pay peanuts we will get monkeys, and I know that monkeys may well have done a better job if they were running the bank at the time of the boom, but now we need people who can do the job properly and professionally for the sake of all of us!

If the people running RBS at the moment can fix it then we will all benefit and it will be worth the money we have to pay them to do the job properly.

Perhaps we would all feel better about this crisis if those Labour shadow ministers who created this awful mess in the first place had their own pensions and salaries cut to pay towards the financial crisis most of us are suffering from!

I would expect Labour to present everything in a negative way and totally ignore their own failure to have secure UK borders whilst in power for 14 years! And they did not disappoint me!!

The crux of the matter would seem to be that Clark told his boss that he had exceeded ministerial instructions. That is why his boss (Whiteman) suspended him.

Everything else is smoke and mirrors and political opportunity by Labour.

It is also interesting to have revealed how badly Labour had managed(!) the UK border security whilst they were in power!

But it isn’t easy to do.

I had to laugh at the idea of milliband painting himself as ‘the champion of the 99% who don’t get bonuses’!!! This whole greed of massive bonuses and massive salaries and pensions originated from the Blair/Brown governments.

Just look at the Trade Union officials and their pay and bonuses – hardly representing the working class! In fact the working class has been just that under Labour who have acted as most Socialist governments in the world have done – the rich (themselves) get richer and the poor get poorer!

Milliband can say whatever he wants – I see him as a caretaker Labour leader. When the next election is approaching then I expect him to be dumped and be replaced.

They are in a position to influence many aspects of our society and they are making political and social changes that they believe in.

I don’t agree with many things that they have done recently with my, and others, licence fees. They should be forced to ask permission from the public before making changes. This could be done using polls.

I am not sure that I can actually trust their news broadcasts now!

How many items are being reported with a slant that suits the BBC or not broadcasted because they did not agree with what was to be broadcast?

They seemed to then employ more people to become police and spent loads of our money training them.

Surely it would seem to have been more sensible to have left the trained police doing their job, which is policing, and trained the newcomers to be admin staff.

It would certainly have been cheaper!!!

But I never understood why Labour did much of what they did. I thought that their policies were mostly rubbish then, and since Labour were chucked out of power it has become obvious that I was right!!

I would guess that this is why Cameron can claim to be able to reduce police staffing and still have more police on the streets (and hopefully fewer trained police in admin roles!).