*** Yes Richard,I did see that programme about the claims,you are quite right in what you say about the society we live in,everywhere you go these days it is health and safety orientated,that is alright but they have gone overboard with the issue,now we get 'Risk assessment' now for goodness sake how can you possibly assess a real risk ? accidents usually happen for a reason,it takes two to tango either you get someone jay walking across a road and a car driver slams on his brakes and they happen to fail,so does that mean that the person who fitted the brake pads was negligent ? it could have been a faulty set ok,but where do you stop in a situation like this ? it is just killing progress,everyone is afraid to stick their neck out just in case they get sued for something,I am all for safety but it seems to have got out of all proportion these days.
And yes I also agree with you about the war years,it seems that people have just forgot what our parents fought for all of those years ago,do we really have the freedom that they strived so hard to win for us ? in some ways yes, but in other ways the world lacks many things,total success is not born out of this greed for quick buck fortunes made by parasites,there just has to be a compromise,right thats it off my orange box and off to bed,goodnight everyone.
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Originally Posted by Bunkerbarge Barry,
One of my real pet hates is the way we are following the American claim culture. We have a continuous barrage of daytime adverts persuading us to make claims for everything we can think of to support the "No win no fee" parasite lawyers who generate the culture.
What people seem to forget is that everyone pays for this in the end as higher insurance premiums to support the greedy individuals who think they are onto an easy fortune and the lawyers who egg them on.
A classic example of this was the recent QM2 issue when, due to two missed ports, Cunard offerred a 50% reduction. Under the circumstances this was very generous and well over and above what they had to do but of course the greedy few generated enough publicity to get a full 100%.
Those greedy few will be the ones that put companies out of business in their persuit of unreasonable financial gain and everyone will then loose out.
I see this as a sad reflection of our incredibly selfish society that we are becoming and how far away from the war years we have come when the whole country pulled together. |