Monday, May 10, 2010

Eurozone.

'European finance ministers have agreed a €750 billion (£650 billion) EU and International Monetary Fund bailout fund to help shore up troubled eurozone economies teetering in the European Union's growing financial crisis.' The Times.
This is the EU. I expect that they will already be trying to find some means of dumping most of the bill on us! (Note: the dark blue areas on the map are all the countries which still retain some vestiges of autonomy.)
Announced yesterday: We shall have to pay in £8 billion to the Eurozone shambles we do not even belong to and Alastair Darling thinks that this is 'a good thing'.

Ash Wednesday?

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