The vitriol seems to be in the above response.
So many people in our country seem now to lack compassion. If one can not see the plight of our young, that is those with out affluent parents, then why not take a minute or two to think about tomorrows challenge for our leaders. ...

..is it looking after the voters or is looking after the community?

The future is becoming readable and the view that is dawning on us is a view of division between the haves and the havenots.
How long can we go on untill it is the majority who can not afford to buy their own homes? When the balance tips the law will make multiple home ownership illiegal and the idea of communism may well loose the dirty word status which was foist on it by the capitalists of yesteryear.
The British revolution will be about this sole issue. As for T.V. that is not the issue.
As for U.K. versus U.S. - that is not the issue.
This about us and them.
Welcome to a new era in British life. There is now no hiding from it. Even the middle class is not immune from poverty in 2006.

Thanks, electricbacfac. I take your point entirely. I wouldn't begin to argue that the current situation is equitable or indeed sensible. However I have my doubts about Shriver's motivation and intellectual honesty. She's old enough to have been hit by the negative equity problems of the early 1990s if she had bought around the same time as her peers. But I bet her response at the time wouldn't have included much "compassion" for the hard-working (in fields a lot less fun than the media) and honest families who lost a lot of money and gained a lot of stress. The market goes down as well as up (and will do again). Shriver just doesn't like being - perhaps temporarily - on the losing side. No crime, sure - but I wish she'd leave the "hate" out of it... or go and get some help.