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Listed below are comments made by View from the North between Monday, 5th January 2009 and Wednesday, 29th July 2009.

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Map of the Week: Road crash victims 06:41am on 29 Jul 2009 There is one over-riding correlation. That is that serious road accidents occur on single carriageway roads far more than in slow/very slow urban areas.

As the UK cities grind to a halt, or traffic moves at a snail's pace, then it becomes far more difficult to be seriously injured in a car accident.

Far from being a success, all that the reducing figures demonstrate is that the infrastructure in the UK is not fit for purpose in the 21st century. Folks who think this is down to good road planning or management are kidding themselves.
FOI and the BBC: The next round 8:45pm on 25 Jun 2009 "BBC also sells programs and packages to other companies thus making that a private business.

Whilst there should be accountability for public funded spending I'm not sure that should extend to private business. Of course, if you disagree, please feel free to announce your personal salary and expense details on this forum."

Lots of public bodies buy and sell products. It is something that has been going on for a couple of decades (even if you don't count pre-Thatcherite sales and purchases!). That doesn't make them a private business. All their purchases and receipts are liable to official scrutiny.
FOI and the BBC: The next round 1:27pm on 25 Jun 2009 "I would disagree with the notion that all individual salary details should be divulged.
It is not in the public domain what you or I earn and it is not anyone's business for that matter."

Not true! As a former teacher/Headteacher, my salary WAS known by anyone who cared to look up the appropriate tables in the Teachers Pay and Conditions Document. We DO know what nurses, doctors, policement and junior Council officials are on. Why the secrecy? This is public money, that members of the public are REQUIRED to give in the form of a tax whether they use the BBC or not, and so they are no different from other public servants. Quite frankly, the salaries are way too high for run of the mill jobs. Doubtless they wouldn't be called run of the mill by those in them, but nor would teachers, nurses, policemen, and uncle-Tom-Cobbly-and-all describe their jobs as run of the mill either!

Time some of the Licence cash was paid to more efficient broadcasters.
Daniels sacrifices bonus 3:06pm on 11 Feb 2009 Surely no Minister of the Crown would dare reckon that lodging at her sister's house is her main residence, whilst the taxpayer funds the home where her children stay full time, and she spends all her long weekends and holidays?
Labour law wrangling 12:46pm on 08 Feb 2009 Democracy threat: Spot on!

Yet the BBC News still treats us to the opinions of these "financial experts" to tell us where things have gone wrong!

If they were financial experts, billions of people would not be in the position they are in now!
Bull in a china shop 12:16pm on 05 Jan 2009 Perhaps it is time that the UK/Europe only accepted imports from companies that can PROVE they treat their workers in an acceptable manner? NO child labour; NO cheap labour; NO environmentally unacceptable practices; proper provision for the retired.

If the UK (reluctantly) and Europe (somewhat more enthusiastically) requires home-based companies to do these things, then surely it is only right that companies importing goods to Europe/the UK should be required to do the same.

Apart from helping to create a level playing field, it would do more to raise standards in poorer countries than any number of aid packages?

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