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And Labour's entire campaign hinges on a smoke-and-mirrors act aimed at distracting people from the extent to which Brown exposed us to the worst of that collapse by inextricably tying our economy to the twin pillars of minimal financial regulation and the expectation of infinite growth in an unsustainable house price pyramid scheme. Trouble is, I have no confidence that the other lot would have done things any differently... You talk like late capitalism actually has any choices, it doesn't...Any old gravy train will do. It may not have black-and-white choices, but it certainly has shades of sludgy grey. It's over baby...Just waiting for the fat bird to get up... If you just take the UK we're using nearly 20% of our gdp to keep up interest payments on the black hole that is our finances. And I'm pretty sure Italy and Portugal are gone along with Greece.

Happens all the time. iirc people weren't allowed to leave Fallujah before the full spectrum bombing started.

Is that really true? The UK taxpayer has spent... £280bn to Agree in principle to provide insurance for selection of bank assets £250bn to Guarantee wholesale borrowing by banks to strengthen liquidity in the banking system £200bn to Indemnify Bank of England against losses incurred in providing over £200bn of liquidity support £76bn To purchase shares in RBS and Lloyds Banking Group £40bn to Provide loans and other funding to Bradford & Bingley and the Financial Services compensation Scheme Have we got all that back? Ybf those are exceptional costs in exceptional circumstances. We should have a referendum about getting out and repeal the Lisbon treaty. It's a road to nowhere...

It's nearly game over so he's thinking about covering his ass..

It's the traditional way the Swiss make money.

Mrs Andreasen raised her criticisms and proposals for overdue improvements and changes internally, but made no progress with her superior. She then submitted her report to the Commissioner Michaele Schreyer and the Commission President Romano Prodi. She again received no answers and so approached members of the EU Parliament’s Budget Control Committee.[citation needed] She, consequently, refused to sign off the 2001 European Commission accounts. With this, she is not alone – The EU's Court of Auditors can only fully validate 5% of the money spent and have criticized the system every year since 1994. In the discharge procedure in 2003 the Commission promised comprehensive reform [4][5]. At this stage the media began to investigate and to report. Mrs Andreasen went public with her concerns on 1 August 2002 [6]. [edit] Sacking Mrs Andreasen was fully suspended from her job by the Commission in May 2002 (for "violating Articles 12 and 21 of staff regulations, failure to show sufficient loyalty and respect"), underwent a disciplinary procedure and in the end was fired in 2005. She said to have been suspended from her job and ultimately fired because she refused to sign accounts she believed were unreliable – in 2002 alone, her office found 10,000 possible cases of fraud in EU accounts. The Civil Service Tribunal of the EU confirmed the sacking of Marta Andreasen in its decision of 8 November 2007.[7] We need to get out now.

Can't really talk about EU budgets and whatnot cause you tend to get fired even if you are the in charge of the budget. EU budget rejected by the European Court of Auditors – again For the fourteenth year in a row, the European Court of Auditors has refused to certify the EU budget. Not that anyone seems to care. Even in Britain, people are responding with a shrug so dismissive as to be downright Gallic. Yep, the EU is corrupt: et alors? I have blogged before about our indifference to Euro-fraud and about how, strangely enough, I find hope in our cynicism. Think of it as a marriage. So long as there is bickering, the relationship is alive: each partner cares enough about the other’s point of view to want to change it. But when the arguments give way to indifference, the plate-throwing to scorn, the rows to contempt, the marriage is over. If, as a people, we have given up on any hope of reforming the EU then, in our hearts, we have already determined on separation. Still, I wouldn’t want you turn away from this blog without feeling even a spark of anger. So please have a look at this list (hat tip, Open Europe) of the top 100 scams that have been funded by your money over the past year. A final observation. Britain is the second-largest net contributor to the EU budget after Germany. If we withheld our subs, we’d have enough to give the entire country a two-thirds reduction in council tax. With all three parties now scratching around for tax-cuts, I thought that might be worth mentioning.

And Labour's entire campaign hinges on a smoke-and-mirrors act aimed at distracting people from the extent to which Brown exposed us to the worst of that collapse by inextricably tying our economy to the twin pillars of minimal financial regulation and the expectation of infinite growth in an unsustainable house price pyramid scheme. Trouble is, I have no confidence that the other lot would have done things any differently... You talk like late capitalism actually has any choices, it doesn't...Any old gravy train will do.

One more needed.

Just hazarding a guess that it is a player CH knows and will be availble from the mess that is Pompey.

Would be my pick as a realistic buy for CM. Good ball player, bit of dribble on him as well. Excellent set piece taker. Wouldn't be silly money.

Guti special.

Happier now with the 3-1 prediction.

Routledge looks like he'll be able to make the step up (I know he had a few games for Villa).

I need some of this love ting...

3-1

Don't really understand how people get so wrecked over a few beers (5/6pints)...If you eat before you go out and drink water before you go to bed should really be fine. I did notice a differance once I got over 30 but it was marginal really. Only time I really lost it recently (last year) was after a heavy all night vodka session.

Nor is the midfield. Rotledge is the only one who could 'do a job' and Guti will be gone imo.

I'll give you one guess dear boy.

Cost of the EU's 8,500 quangos now £167 billion pa The Cabinet Office confirmed the cost of quangos in Britain was £167 billion in 2007 (all the national newspapers reported it). That makes it by far the Treasury's biggest expense - the NHS comes next at £90 billion (itself packed with an internal quango bureaucracy costing £60 billion). In 2006 the Cabinet Office reported a quango cost of £124 billion. Only the Westminster News, and the Telegraph six months later, picked it up. This is the reason the Treasury is unable to pay its bills and the pound is falling against even the fragile dollar - ten years ago the cost of quangos was negligible. The massive increase is almost entirely due to the EU. These quangos exist to buy patronage - thousands of influential people are bribed with £100,000 - £300,000 salaries to do nothing but smooth the way for the EU. If quangos do anything, they generally enforce EU regulations. EU Regulation - £100bn pa The annual cost of regulations to industry, together with the cost the government quangos who enforce them, is now £100 billion per annum or 9% of our economy, according to the 2005 Anual Report of the Government's Better Regulation Task Force. David Arculus, its Managing Director says EU regulation is now our biggest industry (larger than tourism at £67 bn.) There are 113,500 regulations now; only 2% of them are not from the EU. We lose £30 billion pa trading with the EU Before we joined the EU we broke even on our balance of trade with the EU. Now, according to the Treasury Pink Book, we lose £30 billion on our foreign exchange with the EU. Even this was a lie by politicians - they said the EU would be good for trade. It has been a disaster.

It's not with Brown is it? The world economy has collapsed. Jeez!

European legislation and the UK regulatory environment The UK Government works closely with other member states to reduce the burdens of legislation agreed at this level. It actively engages with other countries to share best practice and learn lessons from abroad. A key part of this has been the introduction of the Standard Cost Model (SCM), which several countries – including the UK – now use to measure the impact of regulation. You can read more on the SCM Network website. The Government has also welcomed the European Commission’s efforts to introduce better regulation principles and practices into its own work over the last few years. Target for reducing the administrative burden In March 2007, EU Heads of Government agreed a target to reduce the administrative burden resulting from EU law by 25%, by 2012. The Commission estimates that this could save European businesses a total of €150 billion (£100 billion). The UK Government was delighted with this agreement, which complements its own work to reduce the administrative burdens of domestic legislation. On 22 July 2008, the Government published the report 25 ideas for simplifying EU law (PDF) which puts forward suggestions to the Commission, and Council on how to realise savings worth an estimated €937 million for the UK and €6.6 billion for the EU as a whole. Find out what the EU is doing to reduce administrative burdens from the European Commission: Administrative Costs page. Can we still get out?? http://www.bis.gov.uk/Policies/better-regu...ean-legislation

This is the thing some people love to get into all the tech stuff, others just want to watch an intersting race.

Actually changed me mind a bit after watching that little link...ha ha What a geezer...Oldsckool.

Think he's just woken upto the fact that we're no there to give them anything. ha ha...He was playing along (while nicking money himself), but I notice recently the axis powers have started getting a little tougher on him. All good whichever way it cuts.