I suggest Spooky, that it's people like you whom we must blame for the current coalition government. As you plainly write in your post "after the Blair/Brown" fiasco; I submit that there are a significant proportion (does the hat fit Spooky?) of the population who never vote on the issues of the day but instead are motivated by more base instincts - avarice and jealousy to name but two. To accuse others of burying their head in the sand is to illustrate all too clearly that you do not have a grasp of the facts of the case. They have been laid out here several times and are also available from the Office of National Statistics, so I won't labour the point (no pun intended). So, before you complain about the Bankers and the like running and ruining the Country I suggest you look back at the history of the UK in the 60s and 70s and see just how the ruining was done properly - by the Unions and successive Labour governments who were nothing other than the public face of........the Unions.