I'm just reading the headline in the Sunday Times about millions of weans going to die of flu just because a deid swan has been found in Cellardyke. I mean for God's sake where's the sense of proportion!

It's just like when Fife cooncil added wire netting to the bridge at the harbour at Largo in case a child fell in - ignoring the fact that in 50 years nobody had ever come close to that. Risk assessment gone daft - it seems to mean that if there is a risk we won't do anything. Does no-one nowadays know the difference between a hazard and a risk?

I'm sitting here trying to make money for my business and employing people and I then remember the report that shows almost 25% of Scottish employees are in the public sector. I'm working 24/7 and sometimes more just to keep another few Fife pay-clerks in a job - and some of them are well enough off to own their own football club!

I tell you this, if I may paraphrase McDiarmid (I think). We will never be free until the last Council payclerk has been strangled with a copy of the last risk assessment report.

And as for MSPs that say they will will ablolish tolls apart from when they are asked to vote on the matter.......

Totally agree Eugene - we - the general public have been to complacent and allowed idiots and nincompoops to be voted in to positions of so called democratic authority in all spheres of life and they are more interested in promoting themselves instead of working for the benefit of there fellow man. Classic example is the Times scaremongering story - these people are a total joke.

Av telt yis afore fife council sook over manned ah wid av a cull at fife hoose well over manned