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36% of the country think Ashley is the messiah? Certainly stupid enough to be a possibility.

36% of the country think like CT though alex.

http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/05/why...-cent-of-votes/ http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~ecaae/

He didn't seem to have any issue taking up residence at No 10 without an election. Did Major? We're not the USA, we don't vote for a president. Two wrongs make a right in your book? Ah well, two figures plucked out of your arse make a tax rate in your book.

Bad news for holiday makers anyway, the pound is taking a kicking on the Forex. Cleggs comments lifted it off the bottom though.

"Dave has a semi-on" Toontastic political analysis at its finest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/20...otential_s.html Good old Nick Robinson; former President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, a member of the Bullingdon Club and chairman of the Young Conservatives. No doubt the Tories will still be bleating on about the left wing bias of the BBC. There's only 33 results to come in and a Labour LIB Dem coalition is STILL 27 short of a majority between them. If they won EVERY seat remaining between them (which they won't) they could only muster a 6 seat majority. Other parties can be roped in...but that wouldn't be stable. Robinson is spot on. He is still a Tory cunt though.

They may bang up the frenchman. Would be funny.

The important bit is the 10bn owed by Greece to Portugal, the 86bn owed by Portugal to Spain. Then look at Spain. Sheeeeeeeet. From the related NYT article "Solutions are also not easily forthcoming. “In the end, we’re all saying we don’t know how to deal with it,” said Dirk Hoffmann-Becking, a bank analyst with Alliance Bernstein in London. “We don’t know how the channels work, or where the problems will pop up next.” Fuck me.

biggest lie in this thread. I was laughing too much

Actually, who owes who is a bit more complicated than that. Here is a nice diagram explaining the inter-dependency of European debt. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05...ew/02marsh.html Frightening.

I had to go back and have a look at it, missed it the first time.

Quality scuffle this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politic...and/8663681.stm

Cameron is worse than we imagined. Much worse 2015 – David Cameron’s Tories have been in power for five years, Britain is ravaged by deep cuts, the borders are closed to non-EU migrants, there is social unrest, Labour is divided and Scotland is preparing for independence. http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/20...ain-labour-cuts

The correct answer. Where did the banks get the money to lend in the first place?

Invading Argentina might not be such a bad idea as it happens. The world economy needed a war to pull us out of the last Great Depression. Method in the madness.

Heres another question, which may be slightly less daft. Who own all the debt? If the US is massively in debt, the Greeks, the Brits, the Irish, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the French, even the Germans etc are all in debt, to whom are they in debt to? The banks? The Chinese? Who is owed the money? Lets find out an invade them....

At the end of the day how much revenue can you raise from kebab shops. Heres a daft idea, in addition to spending 120bn through the IMF and the ECB, why dont they invest some billions into giving discounts on holidays to Greece from other European countries? If you get an extra 1 million tourists into Greece, who each spend e.g. 1000 euros, with a multiplier of 2.5, that could inject 2.5bn into the Greek Economy, whilst generating value for the tourist tax-payer.

Had to be odd ones as well. Whatever happened to Terry Toweling?

Not that it will be changing anyone's mind now but this article for me sums everything up nicely. http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/20...ral-progressive

I do sympathise with Best, as i dont think his overall performances (when i saw him) were worse than Carroll's early season performances. I could also see what Hughton was thinking when he brought him in. Hughton would impress many if he sold Best and spent money on a quality striker (which we need to do).

Luminous socks!!!

Played Stevie.

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/news/year.asp?yyyy=2010#2068

I wonder how much of a stomach the Tories will have for sweeping spending cuts on friday morning?