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Thank you for that, John. However, in my view the law and politics are on one continuum. The politicians make the laws within which we have to, or at least try to, operate.

I applaud you for urging a second UN resolution. And I deprecate those MPs who voted for the war whatever their party. And I congratulate the Liberals and others who voted against. But were we not all mislead and didn't the voting take place predicated upon there being only one Goldsmith opinion? Clare Short certainly thought so and she was in the cabinet at the time and said as much on Radio 4 this morning (at 9.00 a m).

However, my point is that when Labour left office the debt and the deficit were costing us millions of pounds a day to service. These had to be reduced. Many services have been cut as a result e g a coastguard in Wales. And that can involve a matter of life and death. This is the price of rebalancing the books.

So my overall point is, don't blame those who are having to make the cuts, rather hold those responsible for getting our economy into the state it is in in the first place. That is a bit like the Greeks blaming the Troika for lending them the money they now have to repay.