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.

a special for MrT .......

further attempted stimulus of eurozone
following MD's speech, the markets got out the champagne and then realised it was sour lager

MD's actions highlighted not only the dire state of the eurozone economies, but indirectly, also those worldwide

reverting to the referendum conundrum .....
leaving aside the worldwide political and economic turmoil that is a written in the event of an "out" vote, the question is then whether or not uk would be in a stronger or weaker negotiating position vis a vis the eurozone

personally (unlike stan i'm happy to give a view!), i'm not sure but it could certainly take 2/3 years and more before anything is ironed out, even where all parties actually want a resolution

much more importantly (imo), i think that if uk leaves, there will be huge pressure on eu parliament to reform drastically if the eurozone is not to implode

major reform is of course what uk has always wanted, but while inside, it really is a herculean task as there is no overall will do so

unfortunately, leaving makes uk something of a sacrificial lamb, but that may be a necessary price

he also said all 28 members must put in another 20% more to avoid collapse

Get off this thread you lot, the EU one is on it's own thread.

CYNIC what a great post reform is needed but the clowns in the eu can not see the wood for the trees

stan get back to reading your paper the sun

Pot and kettle alert!

Beano surely.

You read the Beano do you? everyone to their own I suppose.

Zero-hour contracts banned in New Zealand

Parliament unites to pass legislation outlawing the controversial practice in victory for trade union campaign


Eleanor Ainge Roy

Friday 11 March 2016 04.10 GMT


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/zero-hour-contracts-banned-in-new-zealand

for those that do not understand stan he likes to have a nanny state he then does not have to think and ends up a sheep . very sad for a old man to end up a zombe

stan did you move into a warden run home when you moved it seems so

stan has to wait for the warden to go round to say its time to get up

germans going mad and want action on interest rates they are now getting no return on their savings .
that's great news lets hope they make their interest minus then that will reduce their cash .

blame the arselicking MERKIL
BREAKING NEWS FROM GERMANY
the germans are now to scared to go on hols because migrants will break in and reck their homes so far its only in small numbers being broken into but it will get a lot worse
we can not leave our homes empty

Merkel trying to ruin her own people.

jb you are wrong she has destroyed them

have had a e mail from Thomas cook I have for years booked all my hols with them for all the family like around 23 hols always one to the USA florida costing me over 28k just for the florida hol
has I said I will not use them again because of MERKEL
have also stopped buying vw and my daughters business have several cars on hire from vw it will not be renewed form april moving to ford
I am off in 3 weeks to spain so will post from marbella

surely thos cook's other major shareholder is chinese, so what's the link with germany?

t/c is a german company china just holders shares in the company

"Ben Jennings on who told the Sun the Queen's view on Europe – cartoon"

low interest rates only hit the poor it does not affect people like myself
the poor are paying for the eu crisis
the working classes have no chance
their is nothing for the brits working classes being in the stinking rotten EU
NOTHING ONLY PAIN