Comments by John Newson

I don't see much benefit to anyone(except Brussels) from saving the euro.An experiment that has gone wrong!

Hopefully this will lead to cutting back the EU to its real
purpose - a trade block of separate nations with their own laws
own national parliament & minimal powers in Brussels!

Olympics leaves behind it a mountain of debt & "white elephant" facilities

Wind farms not effective,coal dirty,sea generation not on line yet & more importantly nor is nucliar fusion

Nuclear power seems accident prone,but hopefully this can be sorted out,as can the cost factor.However is not nuclear fusion getting near the starting blocks?

The EU is more or less guaranteed to over impose so leave it to the democratically elected national bodies.JBN

I hope this is a start to forcing transparancy,& justification for the vast fees charged!

I must confess that my "no" vote largely results from a conviction that the French are untrustworthy & always have been!
JN

OK But history shows that Africans are not the people to use Aid without huge wastage usually from graft & financial mismanagement.
At the same time Africans don't let competant people on site to run projects effectively.
Realist!

Follow the French - legislate minimum service levels to be applied in the event of a strike.Keep the actual suppliers of services and lay off 50% of the pen pushers. Same treatment all round should cut the Civil Service to a lean but effective machine.
Regards,Simple Soul

Cunning! I wish you would direct this to the South African Government
Over powerfull & political Unions are wrecking the economy.Oldman

Problem: The ANC is not the governing party as long as it includes COSATU & the Communist Party.Time to a)go it alone b)take hard decisions on who is appointed to do what,based on competance NOT affiliation to the ANC & c)get some control over the excessive wages settlements which follow the pattern Wages up 10% Employment down 10%
Regards,Indy

Dear Sir,I agree but make sure lots of tax is gathered!JABN

Spot on & along with nanny state Health& Safety don't belong to the real competitive world!

There are,I read,over 1000 quango's most of which appear to be unnessessary & very expensive - CUT THEM. Cut such bodies as Health & Safety.Do not implement any EU directives(including oversight of the Budget),& decline to implement a lot of the directives in place already(as most of the rest of the EU does!)

Trust the Americans have a massive escrow a/c ready to pay out for the damage wrought by their Banks???

Surely it's about time to get away from these overpaid unelected "civil" servants.Save the money & quit the EU & brevert to EEC

Dear Sir,All countries have different life-styles
and no common base(like the dollar)The Euro is fated & the Sub Saharan common currency is also a non-starter JNewson