Well , some of the poor buggers in question would be elderly people whose pension funds hold stock in these tech giants , but of course the tech giants you speak of would just move to China.

It will infuriate the gang of three when I say that I was chatting with a BBC correspondent this evening and we agreed that only 20 years ago this single policy would have ended Corby's chances of election, but we wondered whether dumbing down might mean that the idea could be taken seriously.