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.

So H/S you have tried to deflect from the news below, what have you to say about it?

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

I have no idea whether this guy is a good guy or not at the moment. I am sure UKIP are trying to smear him for daring to leave. He may turn out to be as bad as UKIP say. I dare say that time will tell.

I have never thought that people moving party tells you much about the parties in question. It is generally a personal thing.

He is a perfect choice for Cameron.

Sorry in place of Cameron.

Shit hits fan in €l Grecoland


http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/25/greek-election-syriza-confident-of-victory-live-updates

Question - Would much have been said on here if he indeed joined the Labour party?

:-))

not sure if i have missed anything but the usual drivel during the day but prob not .....

anyway, the greeks looked to have voted in the anti-austerity mob, which is no great surprise
what that means for € and eu in general, i really have no idea, but i cannot imagine that it will be greeted with cheers by the markets in the morning

Napoleon,

Why does a man of your obvious omniscience read any postings, other than your own, but still seem to return more and more often to this thread?

Interesting addiction and plea.

"I can't help it my lord."

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But having said that.

Population of Greece approx 11 million population of Euro-zone 335 million

GDP of Greece as percentage of Eur-ozone GDP about 2%.

Economically, I guess little effect.

Politically, may be a wake up call.

I would have thought a slight wobble, but tightened my SBs stops and widened share stops on Thursday.

Again will be up early to-morrow.
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because fred, every so often there is something worth reading here, like your latest

greece of itself may not be important for it is a small entity, but if it decides to abandon eu or eu decides to abandon greece, then the ripple effects will probably be serious, though confess i am not sure in what direction .....
i guess a couple of banks may be pretty "embarrassed", but i think it will be more far-reaching than that .....
a domino effect maybe?

I think Greece's massive interest payments that are scheduled in the second half of the year are going to cause a few headaches, especially if they default.

Ma Merkel won't give toss about Greece, but will sure as hell care about the other sunset countries.

The Geeks are dreaming if they expect the EU to forgive some of their debt. The precedent would bring serious problems. There is an obvious list of other EU countries that would want the same treatment. The same applies if the terms of their debt was altered. In an ideal world, they would devalue their currency and as a result boost their exports as well has having tourists flocking there for the cheaper holidays. In reality they are stuck with having to have an over valued currency from their point of view and no wiggle room. Their interest rates are set by the ECB and so is the exchange rate.

I think the European Union and the International Monetary Fund will have to swing for some of the debt. The country is never going to recover. The interest payments are not going to be met.

So the King of Saudi Arabia dies and we put a few flags at half mast. (eg. at Buckingham Palace, etc.). Then Prince Charles and David Cameron and Barack Obama and a few more top people call in and pay their respects. The next thing is that we get reminded about how Saudi Arabia are cruel to prisoners (they beat them) and cruel to women (they won't let them drive) and how they also ban the Holy Bible.

How terrible. "Ah! But there's more!" I'm sure you'll say.

Hmmm?

Please take a bit of time out to compare how things are in the USA. Worse than Saudi Arabia or better? You decide.

saudi arabia is certainly held under a repressive and fundamentalist (wahabi) religious regime ....
more importantly, the saudi monarchy is nothing like as stable and revered as so many like to believe

however, there is no question that saudi has been a very good ally of the west - and of course the major supplier of oil

whatever the rights and wrongs, it would have been the most extreme political harakiri to have done other than at least go through the motions of respect and mourning for the late king

hard cheese all you bleeding hearts, but you need to learn the hard lessons of living in the real world and thus the necessity of political prudence and lip service or even expediency from time to time

Dreamcatcher - post 55758, I drive an Audi and there is absolutely no chance that I will vote for Labour in the GE !: :-)

moi aussi!

doodlebug4 I have a few friends with £60k + Audi's and I am sure they won't be voting Labour . :-))

I don't have a car. I borrow one when needed. I will be voting Liberal.

I was at a party last night where most of the guests were TVR owners and none of them will be voting for Labour either DC !

Haystack, I always thought of you as the owner of a Rolls Royce.!