Of course there are not that many posters on here. While there is this awful furious bullying confrontational attitude to people who hold different views other than the prescribed far left you are simply driving other contributors away, so that in the end the few who are left (excuse the pun!!)will just agree with each other as they are preaching to the converted. Hardly a balanced conversation. I for one like to hear and be able to discuss in an interested and convivial way, other people's points of view, however much I might disagree; I would like to be able to ask someone, in a reasonable way, how and why they feel the way they do, not lay into them and accuse them of heaven knows what. I would like them to ask me the same, not just scornfully ridicule any opinion I might have because it's not a left wing one. All this rubbish about spelling and grammar is particularly tiresome. Isn't this extremely rude and taking a superior attitude to those of us who perhaps haven't had the benefit of a University Education and maybe not held down a professional job during their working years, which somehow makes you a subordinate being. Can we not have a proper conversation that everyone who wants to can join in whatever their political beliefs and educational credentials are without resorting to a shouting match?!