Rhodes Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 i bet a certain football official who posts on this Forum is sweating buckets, i wonder how it will pan out for the beleaguered Country tomorrow who, like Greece, have paid the price for living the high life for far too long and the chickens have finally come home to roost: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298034/48-hours-stop-Cyprus-collapse-Politicians-desperate-bid-push-new-legislation-ahead-crunch-Euro-talks-tomorrow.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastside Urchin Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 The Russians have royally [****!!****]ed Cyprus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mayor Of Simpleton Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Just hope it's not us next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cup of tea Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Haven't the Russians used Cyprus for money laundering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 When Thatcher destroyed the British manufacturing industry and left the financial sector as the counties main source of income the writing was always on the wall. IMO Gordon Browns deserves a great deal of credit for keeping the effects of the recession to a minimum, but Osbourne and his banker friends seem to be doing their best to bring the country to its knees, safe in the knowledge that the rich and powerful will be OK and the poor will as usual be left to pick up the peaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cup of tea Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Agree - Germany kept their manufacturing base and now have a much stronger economy than the British as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Agree - Germany kept their manufacturing base and now have a much stronger economy than the British as a result. Another reason the German economy is stronger than ours is that they take industrial relations far more seriously than UK firms. I worked for a German company once and they not only made an effort to look after their workforce, they also listened to any concerns we may have and always looked at suggestion on how to make the company better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cup of tea Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 There's always been a lack of communication between Unions and Management in this country, which often ended up with either one or both sides getting greedy. A number of Japanese firms elected a union representative to the board, this seemed to work well for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mayor Of Simpleton Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 The same Gordon Brown who raided the pensions pot and left us shafted when Cabbage Patch Cameron and co took office? Prudence my a*se! We urgently need to invest big time in manufacturing in the UK. One bit of good news is that Bomardier are going to be building more trains (they're awaiting to sign off a contract on new trains for Merseyrail), so hopefully they can get their order book full again as new Sprinter units will be needed in the next five to ten years. I just hope that we don't sign with Siemens or Hitachi for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFC Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 IMO Gordon Browns deserves a great deal of credit for keeping the effects of the recession to a minimum Must have been that great price he got for selling off the gold reserve that did it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 The same Gordon Brown who raided the pensions pot and left us shafted when Cabbage Patch Cameron and co took office? Prudence my a*se! We urgently need to invest big time in manufacturing in the UK. One bit of good news is that Bomardier are going to be building more trains (they're awaiting to sign off a contract on new trains for Merseyrail), so hopefully they can get their order book full again as new Sprinter units will be needed in the next five to ten years. I just hope that we don't sign with Siemens or Hitachi for them! When I left school we used to complain that we was just seen as factory fodder. The amount of blue collar jobs lost within a five mile radius from my house must run into hundreds of thousands and I really worry that a whole generation of local kids could never have a decent job as long as they live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big J R Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Eldest daughter is having an Easter break in Cyprus. She sensibly took loads of Sterling with her. She reckons the exchange rate is fantastic ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garden City Fan Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Must have been that great price he got for selling off the gold reserve that did it..... Good headline. But look at the debt to GDP ratio at the time and the financing that the sell of gold enabled to rebuild the public services that werein complete disarray. You makes yer choices, but you cannot have it both ways. Frankly having hundreds of millions sat in a vault whilst people were not being cared for properly on the NHS exposes a priority that I would not support. But hey, the headline sells a newspaper, like the Daily Mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhodes Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 You have to admit the Cypriots deserve everything they've got, I have no sympathy for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garden City Fan Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 You have to admit the Cypriots deserve everything they've got, I have no sympathy for them How,so? What did the average depositer do to deserve what has happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mayor Of Simpleton Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Rhodes, what have those poor people done to deserve what is happening there? If something like that ever happened here, I doubt you'd say that we deserve it. Thank God we are not in the Euro is all I can say. We need to get out of Europe a.s.a.p in my opinion, as Europe is dying on its ar*e. http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/world/building-a-solid-foundation-for-the-brics-economies-1.1342866 - something like this could be the way forward for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhodes Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 How,so? Well no disrespect to them but the Cypriots and Greeks come across as quite arrogant don't they and have had it all their way for far too long, now the chickens have come home to roost they will have to take the rough with the smooth firmly on the chin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Rhodes, what have those poor people done to deserve what is happening there? If something like that ever happened here, I doubt you'd say that we deserve it. Thank God we are not in the Euro is all I can say. We need to get out of Europe a.s.a.p in my opinion, as Europe is dying on its ar*e. http://www.irishtime...omies-1.1342866 - something like this could be the way forward for us. As long as we elect dodgy Tory/coalition governments it could be reasonably argued we deserve everything we get, and the Chancellor that kept us out of the Euro was Gordon Brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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