The Euro

[TimberWolf]

What we would replace it with, I do not know. Communism is a non-runner, so what 'ism' do you think will take over if/when the stool collapses?

Darwinism?

[AtW]

It's sunny. They could invest in solar power and export electricity to the rest of Europe.

It's sunny in Sahara also. Greece does not make solar panels so they'd have to pay in hard currency for them, something that will be in very short supply after exiting euro zone. When I was in Corfu last year I was suprised to see very few solar panels in use.

[DimPrawn]

DP has got a pig farm?

You haven't got a pig farm?



What sort of peasant are you?

[AtW]

What sort of peasant are you?

I am an urban dweller - now go back to feeding yer pigs

[KimberleyChris]

"I am an urban dweller - now go back to feeding yer pigs"

Before capitalism and industry, the man who owned the food - and controlled the land to produce it on - was king.

Get out of the cities; be ready to feed his pigs and touch your forelocks....

[Freamon]

B0ll0x - Russia in 1998 also had bonds issued in rubles rather than euros/USD yet it did not stop from defaulting and currency devalued 4 times in space of a month, if it wasn't for oil going up 10 times in the next 10 years it would still be in as bad financial situation as before: Greece does not have anything that can go in price so much to recover.

They aren't really comparable. And that's not really what I meant by "go bust" - they defaulted several times in the years before they joined the Euro, yet they are more "bust" now than they ever were then.

[doodab]

It's sunny in Sahara also. Greece does not make solar panels so they'd have to pay in hard currency for them, something that will be in very short supply after exiting euro zone. When I was in Corfu last year I was suprised to see very few solar panels in use.

The sahara is further away on the wrong side of the sea.

[AtW]

They aren't really comparable. And that's not really what I meant by "go bust" - they defaulted several times in the years before they joined the Euro, yet they are more "bust" now than they ever were then.

I have not been to Greece before, but base don what I saw in Cofru in August 2011 things were pretty good, the only complaint is bloody stones on the beach rather than nice sand

[KimberleyChris]

Rather than take the pee out of the Greeks, perhaps we should watch very closely how they order their society when the machine finally stops, as it will.

If the house of cards falls, then all cards will fall with it.

I think that at the moment I would feel more in control of my own long-term destiny with a smallholding, a plough and a donkey in Greece, than I do on an urban council estate in England.

[suityou01]

Rather than take the pee out of the Greeks, perhaps we should watch very closely how they order their society when the machine finally stops, as it will.

If the house of cards falls, then all cards will fall with it.

I think that at the moment I would feel more in control of my own long-term destiny with a smallholding, a plough and a donkey in Greece, than I do on an urban council estate in England.

Aye it's grim oop north.