The Brown and Sarkozy show

[RichardCranium]

65k of silver back then, is worth what now?

Am I on your ignore list?

Now about £1.8m

[threaded]

65k of silver back then, is worth what now? It was used to build the city of New Vienna, and a good few interesting people such as Porsche hailed from there, they built the first V2 rockets, and nearly all of Austrias special forces are based there, so it must be worth a good few billion now.

[EternalOptimist]

What about the ransom paid for King Richard...65000 pounds of silver.

65 k pounds. wow. It was worth it, Richard came back. With Knud, so did the tide. With Brown, so will the ice age.



ranty rant

[RichardCranium]

What about the ransom paid for King Richard...65000 pounds of silver.

It was only about 3 tons, not 30 tons. Now about £1.8m

Edit: You were referring to £s, not lbs, weren't you!

[threaded]

1.6 billion is peanuts compared to what King Canute spent on his round Britain 'Hold back the Tide' initiative of 1022.

What about the ransom paid for King Richard...65000 pounds of silver.

[MrMark]

its only £1.5 billion. I am sure we can print that in one day.

I remember laughing at Dr Evil getting caught out in Austin Powers, by asking for what he thought was a lot of money (ONE MILLION DOLLARS!).

It now seems that a few billion pounds doesn't really amount to much.

[Sysman]

£1.5bn to "fight climate change"...

I want to sign myself up for some of that!

Seriously, there must be big money to be made from being a Climate Change Consultant.

Join the queue. A lot of scientists already have.

From the 2009 Queen's Speech:

Draft legislation will be published to make binding my Government's commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on international development from 2013.

What is "national income" here? GDP?

0.7 per cent of it is an awful lot of money, whichever precise figure they are talking about!

[Andy2]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/cop...countries.html

The European Union has agreed a £6.5 billion three-year package to fast-track the response to global warming in the poorest countries, of which Gordon Brown has pledged to provide £1.5 billion, it has been announced.


Thank god we are the richest country in Europe, the one with the least debt, the biggest surplus and the strongest economy. Otherwise we just couldn't afford it.

its only £1.5 billion. I am sure we can print that in one day.

[EternalOptimist]

1.6 billion is peanuts compared to what King Canute spent on his round Britain 'Hold back the Tide' initiative of 1022.

[original PM]

Gordon Brown is a complete tit and he should just sod off

Sarkozy is just french

I would not trust either of them with the contents of my kids piggy bank.

[DimPrawn]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/cop...countries.html

The European Union has agreed a £6.5 billion three-year package to fast-track the response to global warming in the poorest countries, of which Gordon Brown has pledged to provide £1.5 billion, it has been announced.


Thank god we are the richest country in Europe, the one with the least debt, the biggest surplus and the strongest economy. Otherwise we just couldn't afford it.

[swamp]

£1.5bn to "fight climate change"...

I want to sign myself up for some of that!

Seriously, there must be big money to be made from being a Climate Change Consultant.

[DiscoStu]

Sarkozy will have the Germans to bail him out when France goes bankrupt, we'll be going to the IMF

[Mich the Tester]

More miraculous conjuring tricks with imaginary money;

linky

So here´s the plan;

1 borrow money to subsidize banks
2 tax said subsidized banks to get back the borrowed money you lent them
3 use it to subsidize foreign governments to do something about CO2
4 borrow money to give unemployment benefits to all those ex taxpayers who lost their jobs
5 return and repeat

FFS, when will someone give these cretins a lesson in basic economics? Perhaps at the very least prevent these two men being in the same room at the same time, before they bankrupt the whole of Europe?