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In the case of individual countries, I think they should have their own currency which has a relative and floating value to a currency of another nation. When you have a nation like Greece, with free money fountains in every town square, their currency devalues. One unit of their currency...

An excellent article pact full of evidence as to why the Euro is a thoroughly bad idea. It allows economies such as that of Greece to burden other countries with the results of their recklessness. As the article very clearly illustrates, there aren’t enough safeguards in place to stop this...

I’m sorry, but I have no idea what point it is that you are trying to make.

My Italian brother-in-law estimates that when Italy transitioned to the Euro, it roughly halved his wealth. His savings had about half the buying power, post adopting the Euro. He developed and built machines which stack multiple PCBs and then drill them. Many of his products are licensed and...

In fairness, Greece seemed to be doing ok until they became more deeply integrated into the EU. That view seems to be held by the few Greeks I have spoken too. The Greek economy isn’t a very good fit with Germany’s, sorry I mean the EU’s.

It’s hard to believe, but yes, it actually is worse than Brummie.

It’s also the most irritating noise on the planet. I don’t know why, but a Yorkshire accent really grinds my pipe.

not relevant. They speak English

That’s ok until they need to communicate with medical staff. I think I mentioned an experience I had when I visited my elderly neighbour in hospital recently. There were people on the ward who didn’t speak English. As a direct result, the nurse was spending a disproportionate amount of time...

Yes And thank you for demonstrating that you know G Wilson is not the same as George Wilson.

Come on, it’s not difficult to reconcile a database, particularly searching it for duplicate entries. This is a basic schoolboy error made under the most important circumstances.

It’s the fact that they sent two forms to some voters that demonstrates the incompetence. Posting a form to a person is a simple task which could be executed by a child, yet the “professionals” mess it up. Thank you for your reassuring words, which were based upon illustrating your knowledge of...

They’ve even managed to screw up the Boris / Hunt voting process, sending two vote forms to some members. How hard can it be post a form to someone, once only. This isn’t looking very encouraging for the time when the mildly difficult stuff starts. I dare not think what’s going to happen when...

Nothing wrong at all with making them learn English. That’s a sensible position to adopt.

Apparently Borisis due to reveal his Criminal Policy very soon. Very candid of him.

I don’t play tennis. We have women in our running club who regularly run 40 mile Fell Ultra Marathons, with 4 to 5 thousand metres of climbing. Now that’s tough. Women are capable of 5 set tennis, but they are too idle to play it.

There is nothing stopping them playing five sets except idleness. :-)

I’m watching the Wimbledon tennis. How come the women are still playing 3 set matches now their prize money pay equals the men’s, who must play 5 sets? I thought they wanted equality. If you got a bloke in to dig out a 5 metre x 1 metre deep trench for you, but a woman turned up and only dug 3...

Same reason you waste your time I suppose.

Are you suggesting that Jeremy is a fascist? Will his theme park, when he builds it, therefore have a special area for his Jews?