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'm not entirely convinced that we have seen the end of this greek drama even in the immediate short term - and that is why i am modestly short DOW

the shenanigans of whether or not uk should be bulldozed, or whatever other term you wish to use, into contributing to any greek bailout fund when it has been expressly agreed that uk should not be so obliged, will be another little saga to follow
as i wrote a number of times about the main greek saga, there will be much discussion and negotiation behind the scenes, the public announcements often having little bearing on actuality

the question now is [ Osborne] as said we will not put in any money .
so if the uk now puts in money he will be a liar and should resign

Cameron to step down before the uk votes on the eu ?

The previous method that might have been used to make us put money in for Greece was blocked by Cameron. The EU has come up with a different method that we cannot block.

Exactly WHY I for one will vote to exit this circus.

that being so, it stinks - so no surprise there - and will assuredly strengthen the hand of the eurosceptics
however, what eventually transpires may well be different, or as seen through smoke and mirrors

The SNP say they will vote against the fox hunting amendment Bill on Wednesday. That's great as it will increase the call for English votes for English laws. If the government passes the English law bill then they will reintroduce the fox hunting bill later. The SNP may just have committed suicide.

It's a bit like that £1.7 billion we had to pay a while back , due to us hitting a certain GDP or something . We had to do a deal over that , but they got it off us .

The government has withdrawn the vote on fox hunting. They will get it passed after they pass the English Laws for English MPs. I suspect that this may have been deliberate tactics by Cameron to turn the MPs against SNP.

DON'T MISS THIS AUCTION!!
it is certain that everything will have been designed in the very best possible taste :-))

The home, at 2-8a Rutland Gate in Knightsbridge, is set to become Britain’s most expensive house, if a reported private bid of £280 million is accepted.

The property could have come with an eye-watering collection of 1,200 items, ranging from £70,000 chandeliers to £300,000 gold plated bath taps ...... which are being sold off in a separate auction over two days this week. The contents of the house are thought to be worth £50 million, yet may only fetch as little as £500,000 in an ‘everything must go’ sale.

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M/E culture is that nothing is ever bought second-hand .... this is one of the very good reasons why there is no market in places like dubai for these swanky so-called investment pads that the gullible were conned into as an investment

Do you have a link for that c?

i picked up on line on Yahoo News

Here is a link to the auction

Here is a link to the auction

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/28/hyde-park-london-mansion-auction

Thanks Haystack and c.

I know the building, it's been rotting for years (on the outside)

Whoever buys it will need to spend lots...but I don't suppose anyone with that sort of wonga will be too worried.

it shouldn't be THAT bad, though it has been left unoccupied for 3 years

Obviously, this was merely an actual female hormonal problem....

Poor Fish Van driver gets it up the back end

That was fun!

the iran deal is a bad deal and will come to bite the yanks in the bum
a bum deal done by dumb bums