Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

UK politics is way behind the curve, if true, this takes some beating..



EU want to ban the word 'bankrupt' to avoid stigma of going bust

EU language dictators want to see the word "bankruptcy" erased from the English language, and replaced with the phrase "debt adjustment".


Published: 15:52, Sun, February 16, 2014
By Owen Bennett - Political


The proposal is part of the EU's drive to remove the stigma of going bankrupt for those in financial trouble.

One Tory MP has labeled the move "madcap".

Riccardo Ribera d'Alcala, the EU's Directorate-General for Internal Policies who drafted the plan, wrote: "The use of stigmatising labels should be ended, and the pejorative term 'bankruptcy' should be replaced with the more neutral 'debt adjustment'."

It is argued that abandoning the word will make it easier for people who have been through bankruptcy to persuade banks to loan them money for new projects.




More €U bollox here: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/460097/EU-want-to-ban-the-word-bankrupt-to-avoid-stigma-of-going-bust

if you're being paid a big wad of tax-free € every month, albeit worth a lot less than a year ago, the you have to dream up something, however nonsensical, in order to justify same

It's a good move tho, when you think about it.


The land of €l Greco owes about €30k for every man, woman and child...€320 billion and rising...so a non stigmatizing get out clause might be a very good thing.

Hopefully, the Greeks will vote with their feet and get out of the €uroloonybin before it's stripped bare by their benefactors.

i take it you also like the title Vision Enhancement Specialist - aka a window cleaner!

lol, that's a good one c, is it a degree course?

there are certainly Certificates of Achievement (bit like NVQs) as you climb the ladder

Scaffold more like.


So, are the greeks going to blow up the €urobun today?

Will they allowed to??

The odd thing is that neither the Greeks nor the party that might win today want to leave the Euro or the EU. The Greek people by a large majority like the EU and the Euro. They just want their debt forgiven. They want their cake and eat it. They borrowed cheap money to spend on stupid projects and now can't pay it back.

There's nothing odd about wanting to have your cake and eating it.

Everyone likes free money.


Your last few words sums it up tho, they cant pay it back.

Manuel and Max.

Which is your true friend.




I think Cameron seems to have picked a true friend who shares his own values and they are all in it together.

Perhaps one of them could be the next tory chancellor.

Sorry tory party treasurer!

Conservatives and Labour tied

Latest YouGov / Sunday Times results 23rd January -

Con 32%, Lab 32%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%, GRN 7%;

They're both snakes Fred!

PS.

Cameron is said to be very proud of any new member.

Ukip's former star Amjad Bashir tells Tim Ross why he is pleased to be supporting David Cameron at the election, as the Prime Minister says he is "very proud" of his newest recruit

90% of people get this wrong!

What is

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1

1 + 1 X 0 + 1 = ?

onety three

The Crammer's homework for Cameron and George Osborne at No 10.

For those who missed it earlier.

UKIP suspect infects the "Con" party: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30967633

Stan.

I suggest the Bashir would make a suitable leader for the Tory party in opposition!