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.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/09/poorer-than-greece-the-eu-countries-that-reject-a-new-athens-bailout

Poorer than Greece: the EU countries that reject a new Athens bailout

In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts

Half a continent away from Athens, Milda is unimpressed. Watching reports of the Greek predicament on the news, the Latvian pensioner has little sympathy for her counterparts 1,800 miles to the south.

“Can’t they get by on €120 a week?” she asks, referring to the latest cash limits on pensioners introduced in Greece. “Life’s less expensive down there. It’s warmer, they don’t have to pay for heating or winter boots, and fruit and vegetables must be cheaper.

“Anyway, if they borrowed all that money, they should pay it back, that’s the way I see it.”

Europe’s great Greek crisis is often cast as the downtrodden Hellenic heroes versus the ubermasters of austerity in Berlin. In reality, however, it is smaller nations that have faced crisis themselves, swallowed the austerity medicine and lived to tell the tale who are most hostile to another bailout for Athens.

From central European minnows such as Slovakia to Baltic eurozone republics such as Latvia and Lithuania, hard-pressed pensioners and workers earning barely €500 a month are at a loss as to why Greece should qualify for more largesse.

How easy it is to fool people.


“Anyway, if they borrowed all that money, they should pay it back, that’s the way I see it.”

TANKER - 08 Jul 2015 16:39 - 61323 of 61345 edit this post

a done deal with Greece as been done but will announce it over the weekend

just to remind you of my post

sunday night announced

cynic good luck to him and hope he gets what he needs to make it a great life

CYNIC I was born very lucky my mother told me i was going to be lucky and i have had a great life .

education is not the road to riches its luck and knowing some one
most top people are no more clever than the bin man .
most directors are their because of the old boys act that is why most directors
use the merry go round move around before they get found out .
without knowing some one the road is very hard no matter how clever you are
the system stinks the clever very rarely get the chance

The pleasures of killing the defenceless reign!

fred your views as a labour voter tells why they had a very bad result
lunatics and dimwits

Those cartoons do get very boring , post a nice picture of something interesting .

thanks MrT (61348) ...... this young chap certainly made an appalling mess of his early life and it took him 20 years to wake up that he had to help himself

cynic do not blame him it is the system .

JB,

Each to their own.

Personally, the cartoons are often very succinct and fair representation of public opinion.

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Manuel,

Perhaps, he needed better guidance in his earlier life!

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teachers not allowed to teach just follow stupid rules .
by non educated scum called ofsted

61355 - certainly true in part, though that is not the whole story ......

btw, it is pretty brave of you to state that your (tiresome) cartoons are a reflection of general public opinion
were that so, it would be a reasonable supposition that labour would have swept to power in the election ..... i don't recollect that that was the case!

And so much better to look at two chickens playing football.

What a shower the Greek government is. It looks like the deal being offered by Greece is even tougher that the one rejected in the referendum.

Torrids got approximately 37% of the votes.

They were not to the taste of 63% of the voters.

After lying to the voters and the public, they are now tearing up their manifesto promises.

The U-turns have now started again and they are once more selling out politics to their donors.

Corruption continues with attempts at slippery tongues.

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