UK Refuses To Boost IMF Aid For Euro Crisis:

LOL. I made a lot of money on that crapshoot.
"Know when to fold'em"

 

How did you ever come to the conclusion that the EU was a collection of friends?

And could you explain, exactly why anyone would expect a country not in the euro to prop it up any more than their treaty obligations make them?

The UK has done what it has to do......how's about one good reason why we should do more than that?

 

Leffe,...

I'm home today, same tommorrow.

Public sector is on strike.

 

I know, the stupid hurts my head here.

EU: Hey UK, you want to join the EURO?
UK: No thinks, it wasn't part of our initial EC membership deal and we prefer to continue to manage our own currency, we'll lose out on transactions but will put up with that.

Some time later....

EU: Hey UK, can you help out with this financial mess?
UK: *Oh bollocks*, OK then, we'll help out, but only because all our banks owe money to each other.

Some time later....

EU: Hey UK, can you help out with this financial mess?
UK: *Thinking - do you know what? Why did we not join again? Oh yes, to manage our own finances, so why are we expected to continue to help them with their poorly thought out currency*

I live and work and earn in the Euro-zone, I like not having to convert money all the time, and I agree it should help trading within the EU. However, the main architect of the Euro has in recent weeks stated that he wasn't listened to and the Euro was constructed correctly.

So why does the UK receive so much crap from the OP of this thread? Seriously dude, feck off!

 

They certainly have. They use less cocoa in their chocolate production.

And people say the Belgians don't make sacrifices. Whew!

 

Oh please, Oddquine -- keep your garbage to yourself.

As usual the UK is playing her parasite role: let other do the heavy-lifting and at the same time hoping on a free ride.

In case you didn't know: if the Eurozone goes under, the UK will be Atlantis 2.0. and sink to the bottom of the Ocean -- economically speaking.

I expected better of you. Your own country -- when it will reclaim her own indepencede after centuries of suffering under the Westminster-Diktat -- will become an independent memberstate of the European Union, and member of the Eurozone, for sure.

 

Do you dream in technicolour too?

 

Haven't you sold out the Royal Albert Hall already? I'm sure you'll be able to win the Comedy Cup.

Anyways, extremely funny post yet again, Raymondo.

Hasn't the UK, quite recently, seen the biggest manifestations in a generation?

 

Strange you should mention that when the only Belgian alternative on offer is the Mannequin Pis.

I do believe that both you and the statue have similarities.

 

No, you don't exactly need to have a diploma in theoretic Marxism to understand the role of financial markets.

A touch of Wallerstein in this case would do.

Scotland will never be able to break free from her chains, if she doesn't abolish the Pound Sterling as her currency. If she doesn't, the entire struggle will have been fought in vain.

The Scottish elite is well aware of this.

 

Having worked for 28 years in the financial markets, I understand them less than you, which ought to tell you something.

 

Not really sure what Mannequin Pis is?

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What an admission! And you have the temerity to tell others they don't know anything.

 

Well, you could write to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and nominate me for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

I'll make sure to send you a fruit basket...

 

I do know Manneken Pis.

Please, don't pin your mistakes on me. That's so British...

 

What waffle!

 

The Manneken Pis is a British mistake? How so?

 

Depends.

I like an egg waffle (also known as "toast waffles") from time to time.

My absolute favourites though, are actually Dutch!

Goudse Stroopwafels (or "syrup waffles" from Gouda -- yeah, the same town where the cheese comes from).

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Beevee, you're not exactly the type to joke around a bit -- are you?

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Could you please post a link which clearly states how much money each EU country has contributed to keep banking afloat? You seem to know the numbers.

Also, in terms of "heavy lisfting", please let us all know what Belgium has done? I googled "Belgium austerity measures" and most of the results regarded the mass protests against any austerity measures.

 

The parasite in the EU is Belgium, it seems to me........all it has to offer the EU is politics, politicians, services to politicians and its whole economy appears to be based on the EU Parliament being there.

Of course Belgians are going to defend the EU, and trash those who don't to their last breath........because if the EU folds, they more than any other EU country is up crap creek without a paddle!

After all....no EU.........no need for an EU Parliament.......no service industries based on that EU Parliament....many international companies based in Belgium because of the EU would bugger off.......and does Belgium have anything else to sell on the world markets to make those losses up.

Luxembourg and Strasbourg would manage OK....but I'm pushed to see what else Belgium has going for it bar the money the rest of the EU pumps into it to maintain their institutions.

Got a feeling that Belgium would go down the tubes long before the UK...don't you?

Scotland become a member of the EU after Independence? Not on my vote it won't.......and I think Salmond would be a really silly mannie to not allow us a referendum.

 

Said repetitive topic boy. Is it attention seeking, or a belief that everything in the world is about UK and that's all anyone wants to read in the Euroforum, because it's become more tedious than toothache. It would be nice to come in here and read some genuine discussion for a change.

Have you read the title of your own silly thread? "UK Refuses To Boost IMF Aid for Euro Crisis". In other words, your begging bowl is rattling and no wonder as the country you claim is yours has economically sunk without trace. But donating to Eurocharity is not mandatory, so feck off. UK can't afford to donate to a bottomless pit and is strong enough to say no. You lot carry on with the lemming routine regardless, we will keep calm.

So what? We have the technology to refloat.

Now it really doesn't matter if UK kowtows to the mouthy master of French sneering or to mad mental Merkel, because every other country had already done so. One country won't stop the parade. You will have to become accustomed to the existence of free choice.

When it suits us.

Hallucinate...

You might look into it.

Scotland doesn't have chains to break, you need to stop believing tourist attraction history. It's a good story but UK is a choice and when the majority of us decide we want out, it can be done. We haven't taken that decision.

Now when will Belgium ever break free from its EU chains and regain a decent credit rating...

 

Immortal words from 23 year old Janpoor

"The Scottish elite is well aware of this."


What member of that body would even talk to a Belgian kid like you , other than to criticise your ability to wash his car properly .
Are you related to Ostap Bender?