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St Pauls Losing £22000.....per day !


Frederick

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[quote user="Joe"]Glad I live here.The UK has gone to h... in a hand cart.[/quote]

Why do you say that ...  "gone to hell in a handcart"?

What do you know about the incidence and nature of industrial action, political protest and civil unrest in France that makes that statement justifiable?

I'm not suggesting that either country is necessarily more attractive than the other but I would be interested to know the basis for your judgement.

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Joe, what nonsense. Honestly a silly statement.

 

Re St Pauls well judging by where it is they should take it from the  ankers bonuses to replace the loss of income.

 

 

I was listening to someone the other day,explaining why the crise wasn't the anker's fault, long time since I have heard such utter unadulterated tosh, but there you go.

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First there were riots then a sit in?

And they were the same people? You really believe that? AND you believe that all is well in France. WOW, incredible.

 

Re the people who are camping out, outside St Paul's, they are on church land, they cannot protest on private land in the city and they believe that it is the city who is doing as they please and running the country and goverment their puppets....... and they could be right. I don't blame them and I reckon that the people in St Paul's should grow up and get on with it instead of siting 'health and safety'!

 

 

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Early days for the St Pauls stalwarts in the minority.

In greece 40% of the under 25 are jobless and those in southern europe with jobs are mostly "junk jobs" with minimum benefits and little future.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/17/us-europe-junkjobs-idUSTRE79G4RJ20111017

As the penny drops and the reality of zero growth and declining living standards are more widely perceived the numbers will inexorably grow.

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The problem I have with articles like this is that they are written very much along the line of "You think we have it bad here (in the US and the UK) but just take a look at places like Europe".

The truth, if you go and look at different news sites worldwide on the Internet, is that the average rate of under 25's unemployment around the world is about 50% and rising. In the UK there is just over 1 million which represents about 45% of the total unemployed. In the US (the market this article is aimed at) over 54% of students can't get a job after finishing university and over 85% of them are forced to move back home when they finish uni because of debt and unemployment (source).

The problem world wide is that supply has far outstripped demand. In the old days it was quite hard to get in to Uni and only the 'brightest' got to go but in Europe socialist governments have, through their belief in equality, equal standard of education for all and the necessity to keep unemployment low, have reduced standards for entrance in to universities and the quality of degrees the students obtain. What they have done is simply moved the time that these people become unemployed from leaving school to leaving university.

The other issue of course is if or when the economy picks up it won't be graduates companies want it will be manual workers, the people that do the physical work like on assembly lines etc.

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It would appear that during the night the Police helicopter visited the site and the infra red camera showed only 20 sleeping bodies in the hundred or more tents .... protesters prefer their own beds it seems ....

Time to redirect the homeless of London from the shop doorways into the empty tents I think
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.............. or simply remove the tents that aren't occupied and make them available for collection in (say) Norwich.

Sorry, I'm totally supportive of peaceful protest, but this one is so dumb:

  • it doesn't hurt or inconvenience the people its aimed at (the Bankers - they couldn't care less)
  • it does hurt and inconvenience others (the public and the C of E)
  • as a result of (2) above, it alienates public support 

Empty tents overnight in a major public place constitutes a major security threat (some madman leaving a bomb) and a far greater risk than any 'health & safety' issue over somebody accidentally torching the canvas when warming up his baked bean supper.

Somebody needs to take some firm action. Can you imagine how long you'd be allowed to leave a tent in the square in front of Notre Dame? You can't even leave a camper van overnight in the local car park around here! (Mark you, I hate camper vans, so maybe no bad thing[6])   

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