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.

being in unusually cynical frame of mind, i am inclined to believe some very dirty politics are afoot to "depose" tsipras and his crew and to get someone more malleable on board

once that is done, there can be all sorts of skullduggery whereby a huge slab of debt is actually or effectively written off, leaving greece with an affordable rump to repay - ie a rump that represents <130% of gdp

Or knocking for their pound of flesh.

I wonder how many immigrants from Greece cross the borders.

Will Cameron man the barriers.

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Does Tunisia have reciprocal health and medical care with the UK, if not, were the recent causalities checked of medical insurance before treatment?

From Sky

Polls have suggested Mr Tsipras was on course to lose the referendum vote, with a majority of Greeks favouring membership of the eurozone over a potential default and return to the drachma.


According to the Greek daily Kathimerini, the country's prime minister Alexis Tsipras is "evaluating" a proposal made yesterday by the EU Commission president.

It included options for debt relief and more help for Greeks on low incomes.

But the offer would also mean Mr Tsipras having to write to Jean-Claude Juncker and other EU leaders saying he accepts the rest of the deal - on offer the previous weekend when talks broke down.

He would also have to change his position on Sunday's referendum, having previously urged Greeks to vote against the creditors' proposals.

news just it looks like a NO VOTE .THE GREEKS TO CALL THEIR BLUFF THEY HAVE FCUK ALL TO LOSE

LIVE ON SKY VOTE 47% NO 45% YES
LAST MINUTE DEAL TO STOP THE VOTE THE EU LEADERS ARE NOW IN PANIC

WE ALL NEW THEY WOULD NOT ALLOW A VOTE TO LEAVE
DEAL WILL BE DONE BY 6PM

The vote would have been to stay in and reject the Greek PM. The PM may well agree, otherwise come Sunday he is toast. If it hadn't been for the austerity, the Greeks would never have elected such a stupid government.

hay it is you who is stupid a dimwit I am all right jack arsehole

Someones blinked!

Neo-fascist wing.

Where has that bloody waiter got to.

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After the sneering has finished it may be realised and accepted that some were screwing Greece, while packing valuables and looting Greece!

I don't see that Greeks had any better solution.

I think that their decision to hold a referendum shows courage and is democratic in the situation.

It is the Junta which has overplayed their hand.

2:58 pm

Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has asked eurozone authorities for a new, third bailout in a dramatic bid to try and secure a financial lifeline hours before the country’s current rescue deal expires.

when is the evil merkil going to pay back the money that they did in the war
murdering good people while they were the evil devils

come on Germany pay your debts to the world

Greek debt has now been abolished and doesn't count.

Until the UK leave the EU, a major part of the Greek debt will now be paid by UK tax payers, not withstanding that the debt was/is in Euros and this currency doesn't count for UK citizens anyhow.

I think we should try this dodge ourselves (if we aren't already doing so).

It is the Greek PM that is panicking. He knows that if it goes to a referendum he is finished.

We hold very little of the Greek debt. Only our banks have a small amount. Germany takes the biggest hit then France and Italy. W don't contribute to bailout as we are not in Eurozone.

Doc,

Did Tanker tell you that, or was it in the Daily Mail?

This what the BBC is saying

The Greek government has requested a new bailout deal from the eurozone, just hours before it must repay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Greece is asking for a new two-year €29.1bn aid deal from a bailout mechanism for eurozone countries.

And Angie Baby had a two word reply. The second word was 'off'.

As my husband said, "I wouldn't argue wiv dat dem bitch".

It doesn't matter how much they borrow......all it does is just push the massive problem to a later date saving politician's faces....they won't be able to repay that either.....these loans should really be over a fifty year period....that way Greece could get itself sorted .....but even with that, will they sort themselves out ?....I have my doubts....