Britain and the EU.

Cameron has been told to choose between EU and the city of London. People may think that the banks have let us down and been responsible for the economic problems yet Britain need the financial centre as it provide thousands of jobs and brings in billions of pounds in revenue.Whilst the Euro is in turmoil and most economic experts are undecided in which way to turn we don't need the likes of Jose Barroso. I don't think that Britain can pull out of the EU nor would I want it to and perhaps there may be a valid point in Britain at some time going in with the Euro. We most certainly have to help defend it through this turmoil. Borroso is not an elected person, he and the commission has laid out a plan telling all Euro zone countries that they have to submit their national budgets to Brussels for their approval. Why? is this not the same commission that brought Greece into the Euro without checking the financial credibility of this country, and other Eastern block countries that have joined the Euro, who's financial credit are now suspect. Should Barroso not have made more stringent checks on these countries before allowing them to enter the Euro zone.This man is not only getting to big for his boots but is incompetent. This is the problem when you get somebody in a position of power that is not elected by the masses he is holding sway over. The bottom line is that the unelected leaders in Brussels are basically corrupt., and why because they are not answerable to the 430 million people in the EU. All we get it treaty after treaty and when they don't work, these leaders spend more billions talking and forcing through another treaty Remember France and Ireland rejecting a treaty. Then being told by Brussels to have another go because the population of these two countries didn't like what they were voting on. But at the end they had to vote the way Borroso and Brussels wanted. I'm quite sure that is not the democracy that millions of people want but as Europe's unelected leaders get more power they listen less and less to the masses. Its time for the masses to have their voice heard not Borroso and the other leaders who are drinking from the same chalice.    

Hip Dip Pen and Ink

Hip Dip Pen and ink, or is it one potato two potato three potato more..., these are the kind of things we did when we were children to pick sides. Perhaps we should use this when we decide or the politicians decide if we should join the Euro or not, because at the end of the day nobody knows which way to jump and this applies to the so called financial or economic experts because like the average citizenen, they may be a little more educated on the subject, but when the truth is known they haven't got a clue. You have only to listen to them on Newsnight disagreeing with each other as the put forward their cases for being in or out, if they can't agree what chance has the average citizen?  The one time when it does affect the average  citizen is when they are trying to get the best exchange rate for their holiday money. For the rest of the year it doesn't seem to concern them. To the business person that may be a different thing especially when dealing with the exchange rate for their goods, but if we were in the Euro then this wouldn't affect them only when dealing with the American market. I have to be honest and say that I was against joining the Euro, but if the Euro recovers and the French and Germans and the Benelux countries and Austria and Finland and perhaps Sweden get even closer together then Britain will have less sway on what happens in the European Union Britain's voice will be drowned out with these countries not wanting to know what Britain thinks even if we have positive comments to make. On these grounds alone I think that we should join the Euro. But again what do I know not being a financial or economic student, but like everybody else I have a gut feeling that....  

Growing youth unemployment with little prospects of getting employment.

On Newsnight on Tuesday we saw David Miliband and Chris Grayling the Employment minister putting over their points of view about the youth of today 16-24 year old's who haven't got jobs Its now reached 1,016,000, and all they could do was criticise government policy or the last governments lack of action. We have Future Job Funds an Apprentice Forum talking about getting youths into work, or how to fill out a CV, this isn't getting them jobs. Then we have the old adage that if you have no experience then you can't get a job and if you can't get a job you can't get experience. The point is that 90% of ministers in government or in opposition have never had jobs at the lower level. Jeremy Paxman spoke to youths who said that they had come out of college or university with degrees but couldn't find employment. The one thing he never asked them was what their degrees were in? Only one girl said that she wanted to go on a song writing course but it was cancelled at the last minute. If the girl had any talent for song writing she wouldn't need to go on a course her talent would get her through. Had she never heard of Lennon and McCartney, or Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkel, Neil Diamond. The problem is that jobs are getting scarcer especially in manufacturing because third world countries have  now taking over. And people like Dyson who is always telling the government what to do, took the manufacturing of his products abroad because he could get them made cheaper. Greed on his part, if these jobs had stopped in this country it would have meant at least 3000 jobs. Even the aerospace industry is cutting back on highly skilled engineers and even if BAE Systems gets the order for Typhoon aircraft from India much of them will be built their. As each year passes and as more people leave school the unemployment figures will only increase because we are not creating enough jobs to fill this growing trend. And if the predicted growth in births is correct and in the next 16 years the population will reach 70 million what will be the number of unemployed then be?

European Union Democracy or Dictatorship?

As the debacle over the Euro increases in Europe both the Greece and Italian governments and possible other governments are having technocrats getting more power. Technocracy- a theory or system of society according to which government is controlled by scientists, engineers and other experts in this case economists but they are unelected and this at a time when the western governments and other democratic countries are telling the Arab countries who have been under dictatorships for half a century or more to embrace democracy with free elections. Yet the west is heading towards dictatorship in some ways. Isn't this what Hitler did, he used the ballot box to get elected and take control of Germany then did away with elections. The 450 million people in Europe are slowly but surely having their lives controlled by unelected people who are driving their own agenda, that the people will end up paying for if these unelected people get it wrong.,and it will be the politicians who will say that its not their fault. Yet by allowing it to happen they are responsible., but by then they will have creamed off the goose that laid the golden egg for their own self leaving us with the broken shell, and years of more poverty and austerity.

Who can we Trust.

As each week passes it would seem that the people who are running the country are more and more inept. We had a tragic accident on the M5 and straight away we are trying to find out if it was due to fog, wet road conditions, or smoke from a bonfire No matter what the cause of the ttragic accident the drivers involved in the accident should have been driving to the road conditions? We have the debacle over the Euro each night we hear from the so called experts who keep telling us how to get over the problem. The only problem with this is that they all come up with different solutions so if these experts don't know, how are the people of Europe supposed to know who is right and who is wrong. Then we have the on going trouble over the boarders issue. We have lost 124,000 illegal immigrants then we have the debacle about what Therese May is supposed to have told Broady Clark the director of boarder control who not only is paid a fantastic salary also received a bonus of £15,000. He's suspended  then he resigns and intends to sue Theresa May because again the public don't know who is telling the truth. When all it needs is for the letter's or e-mails to be published then we can all find out who is telling the truth and who is lying, or will they be written in such a way that they will be ambiguous. So no winner no looser apart from the country as a whole.