Moderator's note to Youngmafbog (and others):
I'll leave this thread here for now, as it's attracted a fair bit of debate already but please note that I'm getting heartily FED UP of deleting posts from Chatterbank that clearly DON'T belong in this section. (If I'd have been around at lunchtime, when this thread was started, it would definitely have gone the same way. I have though deleted another inappropriate thread, posted at around the same time, that hadn't yet garnered any responses).
Please posts threads like this one in 'News', 'Current Affairs', 'Society & Culture' or any other
appropriate section, leaving Chatterbank free for 'natter and fun':
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1759088.html