Category Archives: Eurozone

The fourth Reich?

The Daily Mail, in classic “Hun-baiting” fashion has had a pop at the Germans today. Entitled “Europe speaks German now!“, it centres on comments made by one Volker Kauder who is one of Angela Merkel’s closest allies. He is, in fact, the parliamentary leader of Merkel’s CDU party and he made the comments in a [...]
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The Brussels Bunglers have no Plan B

As the tragedy of Greek debt continues, the EU leaders, as can be seen in the following video, openly admit that there is no Plan B. Their only option, the only one they have considered and will consider, is another bail-out. This despite the fact that the previous one didn’t work (and nor will this [...]
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Bankruptcy, the Euro, and us

Let me start with a couple of quotations from an article in the Daily Telegraph of March 24th, 2011: “Portugal has defaulted on its national debt five times since 1800, Greece five times, Spain no less than seven times (and 13 times in all since 1500). By contrast, Anglo-Saxon countries rarely, if ever, default. In this country, [...]
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Who the hell do you people think you are?

I meant to post this up a couple of days ago, but ran out of time. Nigel Farage tells the EU Parliament a few home truths. Cracking, classic Farage. Enjoy: Wikio Wikio
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À bas les Banques!

The French, as we all know, are not exactly backwards in coming forwards on the civil disruption front. They do love a good old shindig, whatever the excuse, and make our home-grown student protesters look like a bunch of pussies. So it comes as some surprise that they should come up with an idea, somewhat [...]
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Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

Prevalent in the news today have been the riots in Greece. The country is now sufficiently unattractive to investors and ratings agencies that their bond markets have frozen, and due to this and their enormous deficit they are no longer able to service their debts. Greek workers’ unions hold enormous sway, and thanks [...]
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Suffering from election fatigue?

I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
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Nigel Farage: Greece in eurozone was a mistake

Excellent commentary by Nigel Farage… Wikio Wikio
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