France says Britain should lose its AAA rating

[AtW]

Right, AtW, now you are being stoopid. I am a self confessed cretin and know very little about eckonomicks, but being a country boy, I know a bit about farming. Take away the combine harvesters and just about the whole of Europe will starve, except the ones who can grow their own food.

I did not say take them away, I said that there are plenty of very hard manual jobs in farms and that could be good way to get people off unemployment benefits.

Anyway the point is that France supports its agro sector and UK supports the City.

Here are the results: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2574253.stm - and that was nearly 10 years ago.

That says it everything.

[Mich the Tester]

I did not say take them away, I said that there are plenty of very hard manual jobs in farms and that could be good way to get people off unemployment benefits.

Nobody in western Europe wants those jobs; that's why Romanians and Bulgarians do them.

And if you try replacing the eastern European farm labourers with feckless weedy western chavs, we'll all starve.

[sasguru]

I did not say take them away, I said that there are plenty of very hard manual jobs in farms and that could be good way to get people off unemployment benefits.

Anyway the point is that France supports its agro sector and UK supports the City.

Here are the results: BBC NEWS | UK | Rural decline threatens 'ghost town Britain' - and that was nearly 10 years ago.

That says it everything.

So your evidence is a ten-year old speculative article written by a journalist?

Let me put this bluntly to you: you're too limited to run a company, find someone else to do it before you go bust.

[AtW]

And if you try replacing the eastern European farm labourers with feckless weedy western chavs, we'll all starve.

France is doing ok with preserving its country side, subsidies certainly help get supply of good - very smart strategically.

I don't know if only eastern european farm labourers who work there but they've achieved important objective that will keep them well fed.

[AtW]

So your evidence is a ten-year old speculative article written by a journalist?

There is plenty of futher evidence.

"But after a series of closures the hamlet, which is home to 300 people, has been left with just one shop and tops the list of neighbourhoods that have lost the most amenities in the past four years."

Source: Rural decline: Case study - Telegraph

[AtW]

Let me put this bluntly to you: you're too limited to run a company, find someone else to do it before you go bust.

Well, you do not even run a company and I doubt you do any real work in the first place, I don't think this makes you qualified to judge my abilities to run a company which in any case won't be decided by you.

[sasguru]

There is plenty of futher evidence.

"But after a series of closures the hamlet, which is home to 300 people, has been left with just one shop and tops the list of neighbourhoods that have lost the most amenities in the past four years."

Source: Rural decline: Case study - Telegraph

A case study in a newspaper is not evidence. For every village in decline there may 5 thriving ones.
And this sort of change probably happened for centuries.

I think you need to keep coming back to CUK regularly so that you don't forget about your mediocre IQ.
You're probably surrounded by yes-men in your company, so you won't have a true picture of reality

[AtW]

A case study in a newspaper is not evidence. For every village in decline there may 5 thriving ones.

So in your view UK rural areas are not in decline then?

[sasguru]

I don't think this makes you qualified to judge my abilities to run a company which in any case won't be decided by you.

Au contraire, I'm well off and have to make many financial judgements to preserve my wealth.
I certainly wouldn't invest any money with you at the helm, regardless of how good the idea was behind it.
I'm not having a go, its just that techies in general don't make good business people (with some notable exceptions).

[sasguru]

So in your view UK rural areas are not in decline then?

First you have to define decline.
But in general, I haven't seen any credible evidence of that, no.