British banks withdraw billions from Europe as Mario Monti criticises Germans

[Old Greg]

Loving the demise of the Euro.

Looking forward to being able to buy a 5 bedroom / 4 bathroom / private pool villa in Spain for the price of a bedsit in Birmingham.




Just need the pound to make some significant gains on the euro.

WHS

It's like watching three guys at the back of the execution queue laughing at those at the front.

[DodgyAgent]

It's like watching three guys at the back of the execution queue laughing at those at the front.

It has huge significance in that it has shown the political elite - 99% of who have never done a days proper work in their lives that they cannot get away with screwing the people who they are meant to serve.

The Euro is the biggest scandal of them all - dreamt up by arrogant politicians to make a a name/fortune for themselves. Straight to the gallows for them.

[sasguru]

It has huge significance in that it has shown the political elite - 99% of who have never done a days proper work in their lives that they cannot get away with screwing the people who they are meant to serve.

The Euro is the biggest scandal of them all - dreamt up by arrogant politicians to make a a name/fortune for themselves. Straight to the gallows for them.

Old Greg and you are like mirror opposites if each other.

[AtW]

Maybe we should whistle the theme tune to the Great Escape?

British banks flee as French ratings downgrade looms | Business

Great escape? Is that the movie where majority of escapees get machine gunned with sole survivor escaping on a motorcycle?

[AllezFrance]

Maybe we should whistle the theme tune to the Great Escape?

British banks flee as French ratings downgrade looms | Business

Hope this won't affect my new contract in Paris starting in Jan.

[VectraMan]

Great escape? Is that the movie where majority of escapees get machine gunned with sole survivor escaping on a motorcycle?

Not quite. Steve McQueen foolishly tried to escape the Eurozone and EU by jumping into Switzerland, only to be shot, caught up in barbed wire, then taken back to Germany and thrown in ze Kooler.

James Coburn gets out of France, only to find himself in Spain, Doh! And IIRC Charles Bronson and the other bloke manage to get on a boat to Sweden, which at least gets them out of the Euro zone, but not the EU.

It seems escape from the EU is impossible.

[AllezFrance]

UK will be in the euro Sep 2012. I'll take odds. Recent events are just political.

[DimPrawn]

UK will be in the euro Sep 2012. I'll take odds. Recent events are just political.

If Labour take over, I would say you are correct.

[AllezFrance]

If Labour take over, I would say you are correct.

We should all be intelligent enough to ignore politics. The UK will join the euro next year regardless. Read 1984??

[CheeseSlice]

UK will be in the euro Sep 2012. I'll take odds. Recent events are just political.

But only if France leaves the Euro first