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Your wifes job is insecure, you are on a short term contract! Do not ask us, I suggest you go and ask "Max your self out on the mortgage" Krusty. Personally I think you are mad for even thinking of buying a house with those circumstances.

Is not the doom in Wales reported by TMT a Welsh person? I do not think it is all posters saying doom and gloom.

Er let me think for 1 millisecond. Investment bankers, per chance?

Lot of talk on here and posts about how high petrol prices are going to decimate the disposable income of the masses. Well this survey says it is not and is perhaps backed up by the retail sales figures which contary to the VI "keep IR rates low brigade in the media" are strong. Also the detail is interesting, most worried are public sector workers, least worried people in London and the south east, most worried people are in the Wales. Also the social economic group AB (prefessionals) are twice as worried as the DE (low paid/low income). So the moral of the story must be that if you are a well paid professional in the public sector in Wales it is moist bum time. Whereas a low paid manual worker in London/SE is spending all their money on wine women/men and song.

Are we here in Britain not having to do the same. The UK govt have been borrowing money to bail out the banks and this also includes bailing out foreign bondholders and loans in foreign countries so the foreign countries do not collapse? All paid for by the UK taxpayer. Same in NL, Belgium. The only countries that seem to be getting a free ride are Germany and France who are getting their big banks bailed out by the collective european taxpayers.

I live there and I will be launching a famous Cotteswold "Cheese Roller" at you. Catching them is a sign of a man around here.

I am surprised that it has taken them so long. Mild mannered old me would have been throwing rocks a long time ago at how the Spanish public have been treated.

The sodomize is in this article. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_boss_strauss_kahn_arrested_in_Kbd7uAi594vbej3oORXfcJ I agree the details are sketchy at this point in time and will be until he is actually charged or arrainged in US terms. Edit: In US Speak Sodomy is also Oral Sex. Yep I did misinterpret the us of the word.

What do you think the allegations are?

Does not sound like a setup. The allegations are forced fellatio and then ******** rape. There will be evidence that is why they have done DNA tests and they will test his clothes for other physical evidence. The other charge is forced imprisionment, this is because he is charged with locking the maid in the bathroom after he had finished. She was only found because DSK called the hotel saying that he had lost his phone and was it in the room (not too smart, seeing as our DSK had locked the maid in the bathroom). Also he was only charged after he had taken part in an identity parade. I know there will be conspiracy theories but the charging here looks to be on pretty solid ground especially if there is DNA found in her rectum and signs off forced entry.

http://www.ecb.int/ecb/educational/html/index.en.html This is the new tool that the ECB is using to brainwash the peoples under their control. When Inflation gets to 10% then in press section it has reports of having to use gold for payments. Little nod the the German physic there. Anyway there are lots of people on here who think they are smart so perhaps we could start a HPC fantasy league.

You have just lost the argument big time. SNP -= Fantastic BNP = Racist. in your view.

So form www.hpc.scotland and all will be well. Stop moaning and start doing something proactive for Scotland. You want independance start independent websites.

Of course England would. Alex Salmond has promised a manufacturing revival in Scotland based on renewables. So why are all the offshore windmill factories being located in England? Vestas - Kent Siemens - Newcastle Gamesa - HQ London - R&D Glasgow 130 jobs. Clipper Windpower - Newcastle. Why are none of the manufacturing plants in Scotland when Mr Salmond says they are going to be the salvation of Scotland?

What makes me laugh is the Scottish join a website called www.hpc.co.uk - yep UK and then say we can not discuss Scotland. We have threads on USA, Greece, France, Spain, Ireland, etc. But it is only when Scotland is discussed that we get posts of "Stop this now" or the little Englanders. Talk about chips on shoulders.

http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1022256.shtml The above is an interesting article based on a report from a German institute. In summary basically the Germans are good at mid-tech and not so good at high tech. The reason given though is surprising. That US and UK investors and capital markets value companies with a higher valuation if they have significant R&D whereas German investors do not. The UK's problem does not seem to be innovation it seems to be either capitalising on it or making the results of said innovation here. The above graph is numbers of companies (over a certain size) in each country that spend a double digit amount of there sales on R&D i.e investing for the future. Surprising hey.

Big difference Apple success is based on design quality German success is based on build quality.

Friend of mine has just paid 259 quid for a Neff Microwave wanting German build quality. He was well f'ed off when he opened the door and there was a big sticker saying "Made in PRC." The Germans need to be careful about this because a microwave made in China advetised ad German built quality means people will not trust that the more expensive stuff like fridge freezers, ovens etc are not made in China. Anyway gave me a laugh when I pointed out to him my 20 quid Tesco Value microwave has the same build quality.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/poll-50763-details/ques-52853-id/Standard+poll%3A+Scotland/poll.do Alex Salmonds strategy is working. 73% of English say we do not care if Scotlands goes independent.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23947405-loans-crisis-may-force-winterson-to-sell-her-pound-22m-home.do Why is it that the so called "progressives" all have to have loads of properties and then can not understand when a bank says "you have too much risk to property so no more mullah." Well money used to grow on trees before

Camerons paymasters have decided that UK Plc is better off with an independent Scotland, so it will happen. I would like to know why the City thinks this, why is Scotland such a bad place for the City to invest money and build businesses.

Read the article. I do not understand why you raise sovereign debt or tax collection that has nothing to do with the point I was making. The article quite clearly describes a meeting where Lenihen after guaranteeing the banks had decided that they had lied to him about the amount of trouble they were in. At the meeting before the EU/IMF bailout Lenihan proposed that the only way forward from now was haircuts for Irish bank bondholders, in fact almost a complete default of all bank liabilities. The IMF expected this it was par for the course in there experience, George Osbourne supported it. The people against were the chairman of the Irish Central bank, an Irish man doing the ECB's work, The ECB and Geithner. The point being that the Irish people should expect the head of the IRish Central Bank to work in their interests, he does not he works for the interests of the ECB. Treachery in my book, but what do I know.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/8501225/Switzerland-threatens-to-clamp-down-on-tax-exiles.html Boy Oh Boy, we must have some truly nice people in the City if even a Banker State like CH does not want anymore of them.

I think Ireland should default. but I was repsonding to a previous post that implied only bankers would be hit, whereas it will be the whole country.