Laura

No good. Far too restrictive; OH says there is always something ultra expensive about to go wrong (he's been there); you can't pop into Waitrose the way you can in a big panel van....which is the way to do it; big panel van converted to a camper, no extra windows. We did it for years. Saved a fortune. Can be done for peanuts. Be discreet. Parry? - Discreet? - Is this possible?

Almost instant bump. Well said RFD. Applecrate's image still irritates me from when he appeared at that hearing into NR's 'failure'. Where are Robespierre & Borgia when needed. Or for less subtlety, African banana republic style justice?

Poor show George At the heart of the crisis was a rapid and unsustainable increase in debt that our macroeconomic and regulatory system utterly failed to identify let alone prevent. Those responsible have been arrested pending criminal prosecution, & refused bail due to the seriousness of their offences

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gold-currency-first-resort

Quite right AB. One thing does puzzle me though. That will be around a six-fold increase in the gold price in GBP compared to today. So if bread is also six-times the present price, will salaries/pensions/benefits also be automatically increased to that amount by the caring govt.? If not, then isn't there some point to holding gold?

The fact that there are houses in Corby at over 6 figs sums up how utterly bonkers it all was.

The number of bin men could be halved. The only staff needed are one driver & an overseer; the others could be miscreant youth. I hear one LA even provides an overnight re-perfuming facility for the operatives daisies! Don't laugh, back in the seventies Basingstoke dustmen didn't have to work in inclement weather, so all is possible in the mad world of local govt.

Sarah, I think single mothers are the target, not pensioners. The latter are hardly the group to forcibly relocate!

Just remember folks, it is Spain (& any other country not called France or Germany) that will be the EZ (& EU?) killer. You must remember this. It is vitally important that the Franco-German alliance is seen as the victim after all their selfless hard work within the European Community

Good point TMT, thxs. I've just stamped the revelation as mine

Rumours from my local authority contacts suggest that at least two councils have been on a fact-finding trip to Torrevieja & other Spanish costa 'townships' where supply outstrips demand, to test the viability of housing non-working UK tenants far cheaper than can be achieved in the UK. I have no further details at present but I can see the sense in this when Spanish banks will take anything they can get for their repos & the Euro is failing. What a wonderful opportunity to ditch relocate some disadvantaged members of UK society in order to give them a new & challenging start. One trusts Shar & Trace would be forced to deal with contracted Spanish officialdom & not dedicated UK housing staff flown in? - shock treatment will be the only way to churn out bilingual chavs, but I'm sure they will thank the motherland eventually. If there is tax payer participation in the selection process I think the plan has considerable merit? © Laura Berlesconi 2010

Would you believe it, the man from Del-IMF is dropping in on Friday. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSWBT01398520100615

Look at the plus points; the subsequent bulldozing would be a relief for anyone who bought in Torrevieja

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BANK-REPOS-BARGAIN-BUYS-SPAIN-PAY-ONLY-15-DEPOSIT-/190404779354?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_HG_Property_RL&hash=item2c55025d5a Then you look at more Spanish property on fleabay & see £32,000 mentioned; & still it seems too expensive when you know it can only get cheaper. How the psychology changes Meanwhile in glorious Britain .......

& lower down we have these gems, just in case anyone doubted it is Game Over. Now let's all play 'mark-to-market' .....esp. in Spain!

Or he could stay a landlord & she can give him daily morality lessons. I'm still trying to figure his bathroom obsession.

Gosh! - Isn't Britain an amazing country?! The rest of Europe on the edge of an assured implosion, yet the motherland heads to the stars.

What rubbish. Speaking for Portugal, democracy has hardly arrived, so how can it 'collapse'? Some of the public sector still behave as though the dictator is immortal. The structures are still in place. Reverting to 'normal service' could be the fastest rule implementation the country has made since joining the EU. I chose Portugal as I considered Spanish bureaucracy was nastier still.

Deciding whether or not one can afford children should be another choice; but the benefits system has removed it for those with little responsibility

IRRO, with respect may I say that your form of words here is highly inappropriate! More like tits down, with giant dildo, an unlimited supply of Red Bull, & on top of the well strapped down & gagged UK tax payer

"Wilson! Take that man's name!!".

This has to be incorrect. How can the Spanish banking system be 'at risk' when it is totally forked many times over? Any risk is to the health of citizens in close contact to the rotting carcass

Off to the tower with you Flatdog. Cue Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB, KBE, MVO, MA (Oxon) having an apopletic fit

I once bought what I thought was a jar of marmalade labelled similarly. Not in Japan though. I now carry my reading glasses when I go shopping.

For some reason I took that the wrong way. I must stop reading the uber-bear reality blogs & sites; they might be wrong