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Sharon wrote:Captain Brittles wrote:I have a concience and I'll be there with my family - who also care.
How much do you reckon you and your family will spend on a day at the rally? Because who really benefits from this ???
Maybe work that out and decide whether its still worth attending, because surely if everyone just did something useful with that cash instead of attending a street party it would be of more use to all???
just a thought
ladylabobo wrote:Scotland has never experienced anything on this scale before and it will be interesting to see different types of people rather than the same boring old neds on the street corner.
stinkpad wrote:Yes, there's plenty of charities out there that deserve our money but I really don't think that their donations will go down just because some people spend the day in edinburgh instead of sitting about doing nothing.
Vladimir wrote:But is the best way to solve the problem until they get their population under control and solve the economic and political problems not to send aid. The amount the G8 have pledged is far too small.
It's not about sending aid, it's about stopping the crippling debt repayments that they are paying to western banks.
, please leave the French alone its not just them at fault, Chirac's just louder than the other leaders (strange to say this on Trafalgar Day or whatever ). Farm subsidies keep farmers in a job, if African farmers put produce on the market then hundreds of thousands of European farmers jobs would be lost. It would be the same situation as with the clothing imports from China (that the 'British' Peter Mandelson was happy to accept). None of us are farmers (I think) so we dont know how hard it would be.and the French in particular
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