General Discussion
@Paul "the fairest sector to cut is benefits" How about cutting things we don't need - like the Trident programme, foreign wars, the high-speed train link that for a mere £60 billion gets you from London to Birmingham 20 minutes (?) sooner; and how about a super-tax on bonuses of bankers (especially those who still get bonuses when banks make billions of losses). That would seem fairer.
Hi Don. I've had similar problems in past, not with dawlish.com but other sites. So what I tend to do now if I'm writing a long message is to do it in Word or similar and then cur & paste when I've finished, or even cut & paste.
How about the train instead? The ride along the estuary and coast is superb.
@Duckileaks . hi. not putting coop on a pedestal, it's the one bank i know which has an ethical policy. there may be others - indeed have just found one proposed by friends of the earth. yes all banks are big business but, if you can't get rid of them or change them the you can at least try to choose a "least bad" one. how do you do that? well a bank with a clear ethical policy is probably ...
@Paul The reason money is needed from somewhere is not because there are people out of work who won't work but because we are in one of the deepest recessions for decades brought about largely by international financial corporations who effectively perpetuated a global scam, at best dodgy, at worst criminal. There is still a dire lack of integrity in the banking system which continues to bleed ...
Great article. About time we stopped spending on war (aka defence) and re-invested in building a better society, not a bitter society.
The US National Climate Data Centre is obviously feeling threatened by groundhog Phil because it has apparently published a formal rebuttal saying that groundhog forecasts have not been as accurate as claimed!! What they haven't done is compare Phil's six week forecast with their own.
In case you didn't know it yesterday was Groundhog Day so you may be re-living it today. Also the world famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil has forecast an early Spring, at least in the US.
@Don. absolutely agree. It's quite a cunning plan really. By attracting UKIP voters back in to the heart of the conservative party he can also probably get rid of the Libdem pact as well. Two birds with one stone. It's like the old joke about when you know that a politician is lying - when her lips move.
