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Dawlish may not be a paradise like the Maldives but at least we don't flog women who have been raped her. Click and sign the petition on the link to help make a difference. http://www.avaaz.org/en/maldives_global/?crWHicb
Or maybe we could build a fleet of HMY Britannias and arm them with nuclear missiles killing two birds with one stone. Mmm. I think there just maybe better ways of spending billions of tax-payers money than sending the wealthy on gravy-train rides around the world or as a mythical deterrent. How about better health care, better social care, better education - sounds much more productive than ...
@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.
