Well the Genoese probably don't as they're from Genoa Sean.. People are going to Geneva and it actually a very nice city - clean, pretty crime free a bit dull maybe but pretty near some great cities of europe and the alps of course. High flying traders, although not neccessarily nice or even worthy, are not easily replaceable, their skills maybe particularly 'unuseful'altruitically but they are sharp, intelligent and brave and live daily by their results (none of this makes them nice or worthy by the way)...makes me laugh that people think it's sooo easy. You, I most of us couldn't do it...sorry folks. But the point is as I've said this tax won't raise much, risks London's status and our economic health but the gallery love it...your normally pretty scornful of Daily Mail rabblerousing but seem well behind it on this one Sean. And yes they are the evil bankers, just look at some of the posts on here, generalisations etc - let alone the front pages of the Mail. Structural reform - legislation - removal of the absolute freedoms the banks have operated in (given by the Democrats and Labour incidentally) all should be looked at..but a playing to the gallery tax to try and save Gordon's skin that risks the economy of our country...no thanks. It's like a punch & Judy show. BOO HISS Bankers. Unthought out crap swallowed by people who have thir own culpability in this mess and certainly by and large benefited from the cheap, easily available boom money, tax receipts, rising asset prices and probably false sense of affluence it all created.