Gordon and Co have done a good job of diversion from themselves, as instigators of the crash, to the bankers, who were only taking advantage of what Gordon gave them in the way of very lax control.

It is very easy to exploit envy, especially when apparently large sums of money are bandied about. Only a very few people see beyond this smoke screen to the real perpetrator of the fraud – Gordon Brown.

From the time he became chancellor, everything he did was aimed at what we have now in the UK. The culture of envy, dumbed down education, underfunded troops and so on, all to produce a class of people that will keep on voting labor.

The moment the wheels came off the gravy train a scapegoat had to be found – that turned out to be the bankers because they appeared to be an easy target. Here I am talking about the people, not the banks – there is a difference. If Gordon had let Northern Rock go under – as he should but that would have gone against his aims – the cost of paying the money, in full, to the depositors would have been a very small proportion of what eventually went into propping up dud institutions – Scottish banks.

The fact Gordon and Co want to ‘punish’ the bankers has just proved how out of touch with reality the government are.