Reply to: It's time to plan for economic disaster

[scooterscot]

What a dougie.

Land is the only thing with substance that can be traded when all else collapses.

In the end what can you do with paper notes and lumps of heavy metal? Nothing.

[TimberWolf]

Interesting that since AtW left both Greece and Italy have gotten themselves into major trouble.

Who will save them?

Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
Is it a pale, skinny fella with a dodgy moustache and penchant for little furry rodents?

Could be.

Freddy Star?

[MarillionFan]

Ah that's a relief; thanks.

Interesting that since AtW left both Greece and Italy have gotten themselves into major trouble.

Who will save them?

Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
Is it a pale, skinny fella with a dodgy moustache and penchant for little furry rodents?

Could be.

[Mich the Tester]

He posted that comment pre-flounce.

Ah that's a relief; thanks.

[GreenLabel]

I thought you'd flounced.

He posted that comment pre-flounce.

[gingerjedi]

A government that bows to popular demand is a scary idea indeed. Their job is to do what's good for us, not what we want.

You are Tony Blair/Gordon Brown and I claim my ¥5.

[d000hg]

What needs to be done is that governments should be doing what the electorate wants and not what the banks and corporate want.

A government that bows to popular demand is a scary idea indeed. Their job is to do what's good for us, not what we want.

[Mich the Tester]

So US is not sitting on a bomb then?

I thought you'd flounced.

[lilelvis2000]

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What needs to be done is that governments should be doing what the electorate wants and not what the banks and corporate want.

How will the politicians get that plush job in the city with a villa in Marbella?

[MarillionFan]

Aye yes it is. I'm afraid it's going to be bad.

You are David Contractor Jnr and I claim my five chinese hookers.

[sasguru]

Aye yes it is. I'm afraid it's going to be bad.

[OwlHoot]

That would be your best bet for nuclear destruction.

Iceland sitting on top of a massive geothermal vent. Nuke that, sulphur, ash and brimstone would rain over the whole of Northern and Southern Europe. That's what I would do if I was Chinese. ...

Assuming they didn't mind their river embankments being breached at a couple of dozen points along the Yangtze and Hanjiang rivers, flooding half the arable land in the country with radioactive water.

[PAH]

The UK needs to import food form somewhere.

No it doesn't.

It's surrounded by fish (just need a navy big enough to repel foreign trawlers, oh they're all being made redundant ).

The fields can be full of potatoes.

I see a resurgence of the Great British Fish & Chip shop.

Even the jocks are planning ahead having spent years perfecting deep fried anything.

[MarillionFan]

Iceland

Sitting on a steady supply of Geothermal power, abundance of food in the waters around them, fresh water and most importantly, a banking system that's already been wiped out and started again at 0.

That would be your best bet for nuclear destruction.

Iceland sitting on top of a massive geothermal vent. Nuke that, sulphur, ash and brimstone would rain over the whole of Northern and Southern Europe. That's what I would do if I was Chinese.

Not that China would do that of course.

[sasguru]

proof?

Do some research.
HTH