One of my friends wrote how she just simply can't stand the UK's lemming like descent into post Xmas shopping madness. With you all the way there.

Problem with shopping is that it's almost seen as a patriotic duty if you're a Brit. Shop the UK out of recession and so on. But of course that was exactly what got us into the mess we're still trying to bail ourselves out of now. That, and the carefree, reckless, spoilt child behaviour of the investment banking community.

Can't bankers be made to sign some kind of register or wear ankle tracking devices like petty criminials do? We need to know just what these self appointed geni are up to. Leave them on their own, and they'll be dumping us with another pile of the soft, brown and smelly to shovel away.