tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post668045969931699403..comments2024-02-01T09:25:16.606+00:00Comments on Bubb's Blog: Europe, women and fireSir Stephen Bubbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575202213305419556noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-6823029596495146672012-02-13T12:20:22.515+00:002012-02-13T12:20:22.515+00:00When Lloyd George visited Blenheim Palace to stay ...When Lloyd George visited Blenheim Palace to stay with the Churchills, he asked where was the local nonconformist chapel and was pointed towards an open field. Perhaps you - in gumboots - could lead the flock of Charlbury into a suitable paddock. It might not make you popular, but it would shorten any sermons.<br /><br />On the EU I share your concerns but in a sense it is a struggle to create a united Europe not dissimilar to that Lincoln faced against secession. If one nation pulls out of the Euro - or is pushed - then others may follow, and all that is left is a customs union (the EU) with an agricultural policy attached. An irony is that with the Greek vote through, there may now follow some EU-led poverty relief programmes as the severity of the austerity seems likely to lead to poverty on a scale not seen since the 1930s in a nation already far from wealthy outside Athens. Peasant destitution can only lead to desertion from the countryside and massive urban unemployment is a sure route to political extremism. Very much a case of those who forget history being forced to repeat it. At present the only foreseeable change for Britain will be more Greek waiters instead of Polish ones. But chaos across Europe will ripple into a tsunami.<br /><br />Boardrooms that remain all male dig their own graves. Though in theory female directors should be the equal to male directors, in practice there are aspects to female perspectives that make them possibly - I hate to generalise - more far-seeing and less likely to go for the quick buck or the issue currently in vogue, and less taken in by management-speak or -BS. In short I think women are the very opposite of their stereotype.Dan Filsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090743893438968769noreply@blogger.com