And who would do the sacking, Martin?  The Government couldn't, because the bulk of these people are in the private sector.

You state the problem very clearly Andy. These directors' jobs are extraordinarily secure, far more secure than such performance-based roles should be.  Shareholders are not going to do the sacking, since most  shares are controlled, not by the people whose money pays for them, but by proxies in the form of, say pension fund managers and unit trust managers, looking for gain through buying and selling shares rather than having a say in how the companies are run.  You are wrong, though, when you say that governments can't get involved.  What you mean is that governments won't get involved, because, for them, the market is sacrosanct and they are worshippers of that ideology. 

Could any other ideology grow? Not easily when the press and television tell us that there are no alternatives. But other possibilities exist for running companies, models, say which give the workforce some control, some say in how the company is run and who runs it.  After all, it is the workers who really constitute the company.  They are the co-operating team whose industry produces profit or loss, success or failure,  it is they who stand to lose most if the company fails.

You won't find David Cameron, Nick Clegg or George Osbourne is any poorer after this double dip.

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Nor will you find Blair or Brown any worse off, and they have as much responsibility for the crisis as the three above.

Indeed. There is no socialist party, only capitalist parties and it's capitalism that is failing.