Not a question on 1st part for compers - but ...

[donslot]

There's a constant irritation for folk on here where posters of questions don't give any reply/Tx. Be civil !
Over time each party will be rewarded. Remember that respondents can get peeved.
It makes "no-never-mind-to-me", but then, I don't do the real work.

Part 2
Does anybody have an answer to the economic mess that the World is in?

[sir.prize]

donslot - thanks for your rant. I agree.

Part 2 - no

[QuizmasterG]

Part 2 If we could end corruption overnight it would help but that isn't going to happen overnight.

The mess in Britain could be helped by getting rid of the Old Boy network which is prevalent in government and financial institutions. I bet if you checked all the traders caught up in the current scandal most of them would know each other from school or university.

I have more than once heard parents discussing their children who they send to private school "not for the education but for the contacts they make for the future"

If the nations government selected the brightest and best from ALL schools in the nation, perhaps some original ideas might arise instead of the same old rot from the old brigade.