Jim, it wouldn’t work. Smoking in corner shops have been banned for years.
But don’t get me going with the smoking ban.

The rather late discovery that loyalty and honour mean so much less in business than in the “old days”.

I own a business and I don’t trust any one. It’s not the way to do business then and now.
My word is my honour, but if you run a business on that basis it’s fingers burnt time. Thankfully my fingers haven’t been burnt.

I would have thought the average Indian who is living in abject poverty would prefer a tractor rather than their govenment sending a rocket to Mars. That could be a good start, tractors for all.

You say it stays in the economy, yes it will, but it will be in the major cities and with the growing number of millionaires.

The question that has to be asked is why 2014-’15? Just turn the tap off, simples.

You could say the same about every country in the world though. Why shouldn’t India try and better itself? Doesn’t wealth and innovation and technology work its way down? Countries need to be more progressive to generate wealth. Standing still isn’t going to work.

I would take donkeys years to work it’s way down, the vast majority of India is rural and in abject poverty. Just because the cities are generating wealth doesn’t mean the average farmer now has a tractor, he’s still got his donkey.

BTW I think I read India asked for aid payments to be stopped, would have been in 2012? Or have we agreed and it takes this long to turn off the tap?

John, it has been known for me to buy a pint or two. Agreed it’s after someone has bought me five in the first place.:very_drunk:

Jim, I will have you know I’m a proper racing snake:)

The problem is we have had 2 wars with Germany. It doesn’t now matter who started them, as stated the last one ended 68 years ago! How long will people like you continue with ‘well it’s there fault’ attitude? I dispair.

So the digger driver was at fault because he was German and proberbly not even born until after the war had ended?