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.

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.!

cynic
I agree with you regarding Saudi. Keeping up dialogue with countries with poor human rights will achieve more than confrontation. Saudi is a sovereign state and has its own laws and customs. They are changing, although slowly. Syria and other similar countries are examples of what happens when dictatorships lose control suddenly.

Your just one of the awkward ones d4. :-))

Ed Miliband's masterstroke to beat the floods? Let's call in a fleet of oil lorries to 'vacuum up' water


What can I say. :-))


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924955/Ed-Miliband-s-masterstroke-beat-floods-Let-s-call-fleet-oil-lorries-vacuum-water.html

From the above -


'Help!' cried Ed. 'I'm locked out and stuck in my garden... I'll be late to see Gordon': The further excruciating misadventures of Calamity Ed from the blistering memoir that's got Labour squirming



CAROLYNE DRESSES AIMLESS ED

Thursday, March 17, 2005. Our house

Ed has asked Carolyne to listen as he rehearses his speech for about 150 members of the local Labour Party at Sunday’s Election candidate selection meeting. He is up against five others.

After making a few constructive comments, Carolyne asks Ed: ‘What are you wearing?’

Just as I am having to play the role of disciplinarian dad to get Ed to do his political homework, Carolyne has been forced to play the role of the mother getting her son ready before the start of a new term.

‘I thought I’d wear my brown corduroy suit and a blue shirt with a button-down collar?’

‘You’ll look like a music teacher – have you got anything smarter?’

‘I have another jacket with patches on the elbows.’

‘No. You’ll look like a geography teacher. First impressions count. These are good, honest South Yorkshire people you are talking to. You need to look the part: classic, good-quality business attire.’

‘Do I have to buy a new suit?’

‘Yes.’

‘Can you help me then?’

‘Yes. You have lovely skin and you will look terrific in a crisp white shirt,’ Carolyne reassures him. ‘It will show off your eyes.’ She agrees to take him to the shop Suits You at the Yorkshire Outlet, an out-of-town shopping centre near Doncaster.


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Hate RR. Love Bentleys.

Cars that I have owned in order

Mini grey
MG Midget bl
Morgan 4/4 Brunswick green
1956 Citroen Big 15 (Fench built, also called 11B Normale) white
Porsche 924 white
Rover 2000 tan (inherited)
BMW 325i red
Renault Espace blue
Porsche 944 Turbo Guards Red
Ford Galaxy

Plus lots of others for short periods and a couple of racing cars.

I have had two bicycles!

They didn't half go though!

Looks like the lefty non debt payers are about to romp home in Greece......I bet Paris and Berlin are over the moon with delight not !...

The greeks are in an impossible position, they cant pay that debt off, it's actually growing day by day.

Best to bite the bullit and get out.

I reckon you might be right but our eurozone partners are going to be pulling their hair out !...tomorrow I'd say gold climbs and the euro dives...just guessing but I wouldn't bet against it.....

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_greek.html

Well...it's not going to get better....in the short term....