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 bookies are certainly putting the yes vote as odds on, but all the polls are showing it's neck and neck at between 41% and 43% apiece. The apparently large undecided voters will almost certainly swing it.

cascais ....... dinner for both us last night = little plates of smoked ham, olives, and shrimps followed by spanking(?) fresh whole quite large crab, at least a dozen razor clams and bottle of adequate rose was €90 including a good tip

This was 2 days ago

Paddy has paid out on bets for a Yes vote in the Greek referendum due to be held on Sunday.

The bookie said it has stumped up a five-figure sum to punters backing Greeks to vote for the new bailout offer on the table.

The chances of a result in favour of staying in the euro had dropped to 2/7, or an 80 per cent chance of a Yes vote.

“Our punters are on a roll calling elections the right way. Despite some polls suggesting it’s neck and neck, over the last few days we've seen enough to be convinced. In a race with two potential outcomes we’ve seen over 85 per cent of money go one way and that’s massive. If you’ve had a bet, it’s time to collect,” said Paddy Power.

I wouldn't read anything into the PP payout stuff.

It's used as a device/excuse to stop having to take bets (so I'm told)



"In a race with two potential outcomes we’ve seen over 85 per cent of money go one way and that’s massive"

TV poll puts 'Yes' vote marginally ahead before referendum



TAGS: Referendum, Euro


A new opinion poll in Greece put voters in favour of a proposed aid deal marginally ahead on 44.1 percent to 43.7 percent against before a Sunday referendum that may decide the country's future in the eurozone.

The GPO poll broadcast by Mega TV had some 5.9 percent of respondents undecided.


http://www.ekathimerini.com/198905/article/ekathimerini/news/tv-poll-puts-yes-vote-marginally-ahead-before-referendum

http://www.wsj.com/articles/france-emerges-as-eurozones-voice-for-greece-1435933731

PARIS—As Greece careens toward a potential rupture with the eurozone, France is emerging as the only friendly voice in a currency bloc where others are taking an increasingly hard line.

Why is that? Because France is another country with a stupid government. Luckily, we just avoided one

France is a country with a big banking problem, huge, in fact...terminal.

More bail-ins

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-03/greek-banks-considering-30-haircut-deposits-over-%E2%82%AC8000-ft-reports

A bit like the UK is becoming!

Stare at the white spot on the woman's nose for 15 seconds then look at the white panel.

Q. Clever or wot?
A. Clever.

I'm well spooked ,how does that work ?

After image.

The Conservatives are 12% ahead of Labour. UKIP has taken a dive to 11%.

Only 11% of the UK blames the EU for Greece's problems.

i would agree ....... greece's probs lie solidly in the court of the last incompetents; not like the economic disaster we had in uk of course

Germany blinks!



Greek referendum: Germany says it won’t leave Greece in the lurch


German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, appears to back No vote in last-minute intervention on Saturday



John Hooper in Athens

Saturday 4 July 2015 18.49 BST


Investors around the world held their breath on Saturday as 10 million Greeks prepared to vote in a referendum that presents the biggest challenge to the euro since its adoption.

After more than five months of eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between Alexis Tsipras’s radical left-led government and Greece’s creditors, and with only hours to go before voting began, one of the most hawkish of the lenders appeared to blink. Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, until now even more of a hardliner than his chancellor Angela Merkel, suddenly turned a more conciliatory face towards Athens.

Having previously insisted that a No vote on the lenders’ last terms would see their country forced out of the euro, Schäuble told the Bild newspaper that the choice before them on Sunday was between holding on to the euro and being “temporarily without it”.

It was far from clear what Schäuble had in mind, but economists have mooted the notion of a period in which Greece might go back to its national currency, the drachma, while its economy recovered.

With pharmacists in Athens reporting that the government had rationed the distribution of drugs, and fears being raised of food shortages within weeks, the finance minister of Europe’s biggest economy said: “It is clear that we will not leave the [Greek] people in the lurch.”

What effect Schäuble’s last-minute intervention may have on the vote is impossible to gauge. But it appears to favour the No camp.

His remarks seemed to endorse the claims of the Greek government, which has called for a No vote, to the effect that a majority in favour of rejection would not lead to the country’s exit from the euro (“Grexit”).

The German minister’s tone was strikingly at odds with that of his charismatic but controversial Greek counterpart, Yanis Varoufakis, who turned up the heat before the ballot by accusing Greece’s creditors of terrorism.

“Why did they force us to close the banks?” he asked in an interview published by the Spanish daily El Mundo. “To instil fear in people. And spreading fear is called terrorism.”

Rallies in support of Greece were held in several European capitals on Saturday. Others were also held in Britain: in London, Liverpool and Edinburgh.



More: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/04/greek-referendum-germany-no-vote

That looks like a Guardian spin on the story. I read about it earlier via several news sources. The original story was more about providing humanitarian aid in the event of an exit. The possibility of a temporary exit was a minor facet.

True!

Theres so much info going around, most of it has got to be wrong.

What struck me tho, was the apparent open door to a come back...lots of boxes ticked with that one, not to mention faces saved.

And Wolfie himself saying it...go figure!

Meanwhile at home:

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