Moan, Moan, Moan - 2012

[Martin Baxendale]

Then of course, unless you do something about the financial institutions who caused the problems, you have to start the whole process all over again to fuel your "recovery".

[Martin Baxendale]

Why it all becomes unstable is because when the market in debt starts to boom it's tempting for the financial institutions to create as much debt as possible to feed that market by lending more and more to riskier and riskier borrowers (individuals and countries) who might have trouble repaying - unless you have regulation which prevents it getting out of control, but internationally that regulation was slackened-off by major financially controlling governments like the U.S. and the U.K., allowing the debt market to spiral out of control.

[Lesley Cox]

Right! I wish I hadn't asked the question now. I'll leave you to it.

[Maggi Young]

Weedkilling the lawn edges is not confined to Falkirk, or council grass!

That's really ugly! It has been forbidden here since years to use weedkillers on public lawn edges!

What a good decision. Weedkillers are still used here though the"operatives" do not tend to leave the edges to venture as far as manhole covers etc.

It used to be that strimmers were used but I think they probably did  more damage... making a terrible mess of tree bark etc.

I see lots of street tress aroundhere which have had their little squares of soli planted up by householders to jazz them up..... so sad when the fellow spraying the edges of the pavements for weeds and the weedy  bits at the foot of these trees sprays the little "gardens" as well. 

[Martin Baxendale]

Right! I wish I hadn't asked the question now. I'll leave you to it.

   

[WimB]

What a good decision. Weedkillers are still used here though the"operatives" do not tend to leave the edges to venture as far as manhole covers etc.

It used to be that strimmers were used but I think they probably did  more damage... making a terrible mess of tree bark etc.

I see lots of street tress aroundhere which have had their little squares of soli planted up by householders to jazz them up..... so sad when the fellow spraying the edges of the pavements for weeds and the weedy  bits at the foot of these trees sprays the little "gardens" as well. 

That's a real shame, I thought it was a European regulation forbidding the use of herbicides in public spaces? They don't even use it anymore for spraying the pavement in cities in Belgium. They use flame weeding now.

[Peter Maguire]

If it is a European regulation then we should have it in force here. We've adopted all the others, especially the pointless ones.  

[WimB]

If it is a European then we should have it in force here. We've adopted all the others, especially the pointless ones. 

Maybe just Belgian, than... 

[Anthony Darby]

There are one or two planted areas nearby and some people with fences joining public grassy areas have signs saying "no spraying". When my wife -then girl friend - lived in a semi in Dunblane I planted clumps of crocus in the gravel between her lawn and the neighbour's. The neighbour employed a gardener who operated on the 'slash and burn' method and sprayed the gravel areas and the crocus never appeared again! Thanks George!!!

[Martin Baxendale]

Oh goody, my book distributors have gone into voluntary liquidation!    After going into administration four years ago. If I'm lucky they'll start up again under some other name having sold all the books they ordered from publishers like me but never paid for. How can they be allowed to keep doing that?! And where's this recovery the government keep saying they can conjure up at the same time as slashing spending?!

[David Nicholson]

Martin, I think it's called a "free" market Nothing's free some other poor b*****d always pays at the end of the line.

[Gerry Webster]

Dear me David! My old Etonian chums (we still go riding together) tell me that you must be a member of the SWP.

[Anthony Darby]

Martin, I think it's called a "free" market Nothing's free some other poor b*****d always pays at the end of the line.

Yes, it's always the less well off that keep paying. I believe the difference between a top executive's pay and that of the lowest paid in his/her workforce has increased 10 fold in the last 30 years, yet these people manage to dodge most of their tax burden, and they are suggesting reducing the top rate of income tax "to attract more entrepreneurs"! I suppose they will then create more jobs..................in China!

[Gerry Webster]

On the radio this morning Mr John Redwood, Conservative MP, suggested that the top rate of tax should be set at a level the rich "were prepared to pay". That's free market 'choice' for you. 

[David Nicholson]

Dear me David! My old Etonian chums (we still go riding together) tell me that you must be a member of the SWP.

    I think I'm I'm just the bloke at the glue factory Gerry!