Roger
I feel that Hort Week need some support here. Their piece on redundancies was fair and backed up with quotes from reliable sources. It was not speculative and indeed contained facts.
I am hearing all too often the cry that we are talking ourselves into a deeper crisis but I would argue that many businesses, managers and employees are also adopting a head in the sand approach and they are ignoring the challenges that currently present themselves.
Ray makes some great points in his response to Matthew Appleby and indeed, those who have made themselves lean, will reap the rewards when the green shoots of spring and financial recovery do appear.
I have just watched the inaugural speech of Barack Obama and I feel he has just sown the first seed of change into what is a very barren political and financial soil but I am certain that Barack Obama will lead the world away from recession with his tough stances and intolerance to greed and wrong doing.
Ray - I have been watching closely the situation in respect of horticultural publications and Matthew Appleby will do well to consider the possibilities and consequences of further failures in printed publishing, enter into the conversation in a common sense and grown-up manner, and try and do his profession and Hort Week's public face a service rather than throwing silly little comments into what should otherwise be a responsible conversation.
Phil Voice
