policy of all governments has been in the last forty years. - How much we desperately need to rebalance the economy and how urgent it is to get this process started. - How much we need a National Maximum Income enforced via the tax system to make sure that the gross theft of the legitimate profits of trade and manufacture are no longer stolen by bankers (and footballers!). Comment number 87. The difference between us is that I want to see the greatest good to the greatest number of people - and you want unbridled greed (i.e the failed trickle down system) Please wake up and smell the cordite! You are the discredited and failed past! Comment number 88. One of the fundamental flaws of this argument is the premise that the populations of Europe trust bankers, and markets, more than politicians. Whilst politicians have a pretty deplorable image across the continent, few people really believe that they are the cause of this present crisis. So looking to 'the market' to solve a problem that it was instrumental in creating sounds like madness, whatever way one views it. Like appointing a hedge-fund manager to run a country... Comment number 89. "The political system has failed in part" xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\\... Is there even a single example of the political system in the UK delivering anything substantial and of lasting value to the people of this country in say the last 20 years? 82. At 09:10am on 04 Dec 2010, Not Buzz Windrip