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.

I dare say this event was all paid for by our very own taxes too .

Almost as bad as those 2nd generation poles.

"bleeding heart" fred returns .... shame he can't be transformed into "bleeding carotid" fred

Must be pricking something!

hardly going to rise to your (intentionally?) rather silly comment

One of the main problems with Irish Travellers and Romany Gipsies is that they have a 'travelling lifestyle'. In other words, they are people of 'no fixed abode'.

This is a fantastic way of life for people who want to take others for a ride as a way of life and/or do it for a career because it allows them to avoid paying any taxes and allows them to get away with things when committing small crimes, particularly 'Civil Crimes'.

The general public often don't have any common sense and cannot be practically minded and accept any personal responsibility. Particularly, when:

Buying tarmac for a drive. Travellers are famous for ripping people off with this job because the punters don't check the thickness of what has been laid!

Having a flat roofed garage re-roofed with bitumen and felt. The punter fails to look at the finished job because he needs a ladder to do so.

Get the general idea of the sort of poor jobs they can get away with doing?

Look out for white vans with ONLY a mobile phone number on the side.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/george-galloway-referred-to-police-by-mp-expenses-watchdog-after-complaint-by-former-pa-10261372.html

George Galloway referred to police by MP expenses watchdog after complaint by former PA

Aisha Ali-Khan claimed she was paid using parliamentary funds to do personal chores during her time working for the former Bradford West MP

Fred why don't you just fuck off to France or Russia. You are becoming annoying now you prick! The Labour party not only lost they were decimated. Socialism is dead for fxxxs sake deal with it you boring obnoxious bastard. Not to put a fine point on it!! LOL!!!!

Have they ever done any journalistical ( new word ) feature on this Galloway by the way . never liked him .

Testing Testing . The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain . OK now .

someone has hurt fred's feelings .... shame!

Like the Thomas Cook board, he could have done things better.

Which neo con tea party waiter did that?

When I find the pipsqueak I will deal with him/her as necessary!

Greece cannot make June 5 IMF payment without deal - lawmaker

Business | Wed May 20, 2015 10:58am BST
Athens
For Reuters by Angeliki Koutantou and George Georgiopoulos

REUTERS/MURAD SEZER
Greece will not be able to make a payment to the International Monetary Fund that falls due on June 5 without a deal with its international lenders, the government's parliamentary speaker said on Wednesday.

Athens faces several payments totalling about 1.5 billion euros (1 billion pounds) to the IMF next month and is in talks with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to clinch a cash-for-reforms deal before it runs out of money.

"Now is the moment that negotiations are coming to a head. Now is the moment of truth, on June 5," parliamentary speaker Nikos Filis, from the ruling Syriza party, told ANT1 television.

"If there is no deal by then that will address the current funding problem, they won't get any money," he said.

Without access to debt markets or aid, the government has found itself locked in tough negotiations as coffers run dry.

RELATED COVERAGE

A payment of about 750 million euros to the IMF last week was only made after emptying a holding account at the Fund.

Talks with the European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders have dragged on for the past four months. A successful conclusion would release around 7.2 billion euros in aid, but talks have stumbled over pension and labour reform proposed by the creditors and resisted by Athens.

"There is no money for the foreign (lenders) when they have not given us any funds for a year," Filis said. "We don't have it to make the payment and this is part of the discussion."

He said the government would make sure that it has money to pay pensions and wages before servicing debt repayments to the IMF.

RELATED COVERAGE

Greece's European lenders on Tuesday played down Greece's hopes of a swift end to negotiations on an aid agreement and said talks needed to speed up before the country runs out of cash.

Filis said the government is seeking a deal that will not include further pension cuts, aiming for lower primary budget surpluses and a debt restructuring.

Doc,

Dunno if you get pay-per-view access, but this was posted on the Traders' Thread earlier today:

Here's a monthly fiber chart going back to before I was twinkle in my mummy's eye. Before 2000 it's priced from the DM equivalent.



The level around $1.05 is key imo. It bounced from it in the last couple of months, but looks set to put it back under pressure again over the next few weeks. If it breaks, it should be chocks away to the 2000 levels.

And this was posted later in response to the Greek lawmaker comments:

The bubbles are squeaking! Forget about the IMF, they've gotta pay their own folks first.

End of the month €1.7bn Public sector wages and benefits
5th June IMF loan €312m
12th June IMF loan €345m & €3.6bn T-bill redemption
16th June IMF loan €575m
19th June IMF loan €345m, T-bill redemption €1.6bn, ECB GGB coupons €85m
End of June €1.7bn public wages/benefits, end of EU bailout program extension

The next Eurogroup meeting is June 18th & 19th.

Thanks, Hils.

My £5 is actually on Greece exiting the Euro.

IYHO, will that bounce its value up or drop the Euro value down further?

ie. What do you think is priced in? A Greece Exit or an EU Deal?

In my humble opinion, Doc, Greece are too small to worry about and a Grexit is probably priced in. If there were any risk of contagion, Spanish and Italian 10's would be on the floor. They're not. Yields may be up from a month ago, but they're hardly at 2012 levels when the EZ crisis was at its height.

But, what's killing the euro at the moment is their QE, and that's the bigger story. The ECB lobbed a flamethrower at it on Monday, and there's no suggestion of any let up in sight.

Zero Hedge

My guess is that Greece will stay in. The EU is very worried about their exit. The only thing stopping a deal is that the current Greek government won't back down on leftish policies. Push comes to shove and Greece may give in to demands of more austerity.

We should threaten to chuck em out of the Eurovision Song Contest that'll sort um .

Things are so bad in Greece that production of hummus and taramosalata has stopped. It’s a double dip recession…