The Parable of the Lost Drachma – Domenico Feti.

Gordon Brown is willy-wobbling, reluctant to answer direct questions from David Cameron as to whether British Tax payers will be bearing gifts to the Greeks, cleverly not mentioning that we have already put the money into the international ‘pot’ that he says will be helping ‘if asked’…..

So who is in line? The Germans primarily. Not that they have oodles of money to spare, they are just less bankrupt than everyone else.

Retirement age in Germany is already 65, and may go up to 67 in order to earn the money to enable the Germans to lie on a sunny Greek beach in their retirement.

Trouble is, those beaches are already overfilled with Greek retirees – they can retire at 61, and are only ‘considering’ raising the age to 63.

The Germans are already less than impressed with the ‘creative’ acounting by which the Greek government have kept their predicament quiet, not least because of the involvement of Goldman Sachs.

German pride is involved here, they would like to see Axel Weber, the head of the Bundesbank, as the next Head of the European Central Bank which controls the Euro.

His main rival is, laughably, Mario Draghi, head of that beacon of fiscal responsibility, the Bank of Italy. Dragi was also Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International – the very people who are currently being fingered as the culprits in the Drachma crisis.

Gordon Brown, despite Britain not being in the Euro, is apparently heading to an emergency EU meeting at which he will explain to the Germans that they should work for an extra two years, so that the Greeks can get to the beaches first….

I suspect the response may really make him cry this time.

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Furor Teutonicus February 17, 2010 at 08:45

Verpiß dich, blind, Schaffickendes Arschloch, seems about right.

2
Richard February 17, 2010 at 08:50

Some people working long hours so that others can relax at their expense, the hard-working propping up the system, corruption, deceit, false accounting. The EU really is socialism writ large, isn’t it?

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Old Slaughter February 17, 2010 at 11:47

Ggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Saul February 17, 2010 at 12:29

The problem with Greece is hardly surprising, along with Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland they have been in a race to see who could gobble up the most from the EURO table. What they have to worry about, is not themselves dropping out of the EURO, but Germany and the countries affiliated with them leaving the EURO. It isn’t going to be women and children first, rather, every man for himself!

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Majic February 17, 2010 at 13:15

Can we do something about Brown running around like this, surely there’s old legislation that we can use to keep him locked up in Number 10 until after the general election ?

Oh yes, and cut the bloody phone lines too

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Mike Spilligan February 17, 2010 at 14:07

I’m still looking for signs of any “level playing field”, anywhere in the EU. I suppose that Brown has been invited as he’s known to be totally profligate with our money, even when he doesn’t have to be – it’s his version of “drinks all round”, and it makes him feel important for a few minutes.

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Howard February 18, 2010 at 01:23

The French Finance Minister interview said Greece’s problems are for countries in the Euro to sort out as the UK is not in the Euro its nothing to do Brown. But don’t hold your breath he just loves giving other peoples money away.