john444

Thanks, you are right, they have similar ones - usually in packs of 10 ---------- Post added 29-08-2016 at 19:07 ---------- Thanks will have a look, haven't been there in a while. Do you mean Ozmen there? Or is there another shop there?

Does anyone know where to buy Indian ready made vegetarian meals, from the companies MTR or Vimal (see links to images below)? I love these, they are all vegetarian and there is a huge variety but could not find them anywhere in Sheffield yet. Indian shops often have them but did not find many Indian shops either. So any hints if these are available in Sheffield, ideally close to the Center or Crookes?

I totally agree that we need sustainable solutions in economics - for many things! But my obvervation is that we did not really come up with that many yet, and the few things we know are close to impossible to implement, especially with the recent influence that neo-classical / neo-liberal economists have on politics. But if you look at the actual numbers, I think it is also not really a pyramid scheme in any way: at any time, there is a distribution of age groups in a societe that depends on many factors: the rate at which people day at certain ages but also the rate at which children were born or young people added to the societe many years ago. Because of the baby-boomer years and a subsequent reduction of birth-rate, we now face an exceptional situation where a large part of the population will be in the over 50 or even the over 60 age stratum very soon. All pension systems are really based on a lateral transfer between the working population and the pensioners, so in order to pull that off, we need more young people in working age now. The only way to achieve this is immigration. ---------- Post added 18-04-2014 at 14:40 ---------- How are lefties (what does that mean anyway) selfish? Do lefties all think alike and do righties (those must be the selfless ones who want the long term solutions and hard lives, no?) all think the opposite? I think that most people primarily see their own interests and try to figure out what is best for them by trying to figure out what is best for Britain. Some may even try to figure out what could be best for their children and grandchildren. But is it not a bit hard to get the true picture here? Do you think that the rainbow press where anything related to the EU is constantly getting bashed and painted in the darkest colors really does not have their own interest which they follow by trying to influence as many people as they can? I think it is very hard to get a fair overall picture and probably not even the brightest economists can really do it: after all predictions are hard, especially if they concern the future. But if I have to figure it out, I think I will still trust the expert economists more than those who cry wolve to sell their paper or to frighten people into voting for them.

I think this topic has been abused enormously by both the yellow press and some politicians who want to spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in order to get voter support. I seriously doubt that anyone, of British nationality or EU citizen, would get 40K (can you point to actual statistics about this, not maybe one or two isolated cases of fraud?). Apart from this, the UK simply has to follow the same rules as all other countries in the EU (though, if you look at the contracts, the UK is already the country which has got the most exceptions and the most concessions). So this is purely a matter of whether the UK wants to remain in the EU or not and whether it feels that remaining in he EU would be an advantage or not. I think the advantages by far outweigh the problems, but once we make the decision to stay, we have to play by the same rules as anyone else. What always amazes me is how especially the poor people or people in the lower income ranges are more outraged by anything where other poor people get tax payer's money than by all those things where money is thrown in the billions at, e.g., nuclear submarines, banks, surveillance that would have made Orwell's big brother envious and tons of other things. Politicians will be happy if their voters worry about a few Bulgarians coming to the UK rather than about the real issues, because it easy to fake activity when it comes to migration (throw a couple of people out, if that is not legal, blame the EU), rather than actually do something about all the rather complex things that are going wrong about the economy, the banking system, and many other things. But if we really worry about the future of the UK, our kids and our own pensions, worrying about migration that way will not help at all. On the contrary: if you look at actual scientific studies by economists, the only chance for economies like the UK, with millions of baby-boomers retiring in the coming years and with increasing costs of health-care, the only way is to get as much immigration of child-bearing people as you can manage and give them as good and cheap an education as you can. Because unless they will produce the GDP for our pensions, nobody else will. ---------- Post added 14-04-2014 at 15:11 ---------- Isn't that easier said than done? I can understand the frustration of hard-working people (I am one) about people on benefits, but just talk to these people (I have): the vast majority of them feels embarrassed, frustrated and bad about being on benefits. But for many of them, there simply is no work available, and this will get worse. If you are an elderly person, you may remember the utopia of the 60ies: progress will abolish the need to work and robots will serve our every need. The problem is that, to a large extend, that utopia has become a reality, but it turned into a dystopia: production is increasingly possible without a work force, especially in the UK, GDP is generated even without production, simply by financial transactions. We do not need these people to work, and progress will make that we need them less and less. We have solved the technology, but no-one has figured out the economy. And there is another problem: we increasingly only need highly skilled people. Everyone else will have to compete with more and more people for badly paid jobs for people with low qualifications. Unless we radically change things, companies will just force peope into a kind of near-slavery as we already see it being done with 0-hours contracts and the like. We should not let the CEOs, the rich people and the priviledged people (Murdoch anyone?) try to play the losing middle class against the ones who already have fallen out of the middle class. Let us be smart about this and see how to really fix what is broken at entirely different levels. And let us look at history as a guidance for which kind of politics actually resulted in an improvement of well-being for the majority of people. I doubt that constantly pointing the finger at the have-nots, have-littles and soon-will-have-less is not going to help.

I believe it is to be expected that no party really represents one's view, but even if no party is even close to one's view -- is it not still better to know which parties one does not want at all and by voting for one of the others at least help a little to prevent those? Personally I am constantly disappointed with the party I disapprove least of, but I still vote for them, simply because I disapprove of the others a lot more!