General Discussion
The quarterly return, July, August, September, from the Ministry of Agriculture showed that the amount spent each week on potatoes doubled from 7.9p to 16.15p, despite a 14 per cent. drop in sales. The overall food increase, including beef and milk along with potatoes, meant that the food bill for a family of four went up by £2.88 a week in that quarter. BUT WE SURVIVED!!!!!!!
Stockpiling,and tarriffs cost money and if the cost go too high, then people will stop buying that particular product and start on something else. I am sure some will remember the steep price that potatoes once went too in 1976, well it did not last long as people switched and bought rice and new crops started to flood in. It is a balancing act as to how things will pan out and market forces and ...
Business is business. Everybody appears to be making assumptions as to what might happen when we leave. What could we do if those that assume something are correct when it happens? Prove by way of facts before any conclusions are made is my motto. The supply chain to the NHS is complicated, are the suppliers going to bite their nose to spite their face. I will imagine that measures are already ...
Water, if public control took over once again, could be controoled in a more public friendly way. If the water companies that are now, were to link up the pipe lines, then there should not be a shortage in one particular place. why will they not do that? Some now have more leaks than others and don.t really give a damn about rectifying it. There should be legislation in place to control the amount ...
Should water be in the control of private enterprise? They make huge profits for their shareholders, but would it not be better to plough those profits back into the public purse? There was a very good reason why water was privatized and profit was the driving force.
@DEEDOODLE So you don't mind being held up behind a MS but you detest being held up behind the lycra louts - is that correct?
Imagine if you found yourself behind a fleet of mobility scooters, what you have to say about that when their top speed on the road is 10mph?
America is only a small part of the rest of the world, and I think we would be fools to put all of our eggs in one basket, but trump would like us to do that - he is a businessman after all.
Not the same as what I experienced ------ ONCE.
