Διαβάστε εδώ να δείτε τι ηλιθιότητες γραφουν οι Άγγλοι! Ο τύπος φτάνει σε σημείο να λέει ότι άμα η Ελλάδα βγει από το euro θα πέσουν τα επιτόκια στην Ελλάδα! Επίσης λέει ότι το euro θα ήταν άσχημο για την Αγγλία! Ναι γιατί δεν θα μπορούσε η κυβέρνηση να φαλιρίσει την χωρα εσκεμμένα όπως γίνετε τώρα! Ο Brown προσπαθεί να παραδώσει καμένη γη μέχρι της εκλογές! Το δημόσιο χρέος ανέβηκε από 40% στο 80% σε χρόνο μηδέν! Αν δεν τυπώνανε λεφτά με το 15-20% δημόσιο έλλειμμα που έχουν κανένας δεν θα αγόραζε τα ομόλογα τους. Με τυπωμένα λεφτά τα αγοράζουν!
Η Eλλάδα λέει κουμαντάρετε από την Ευρώπη τώρα και αυτό είναι κακό...Ναι πριν είχαμε τους κλεφτες και τους απατεώνες τους δικούς μας να κάνουν κουμάντο. Τώρα έχουμε τους Ευρωπαίους...είναι χειρότερα! Θέλουμε τους δικούς μας!
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Why the euro will fracture (and despite his mistakes, thank God Mr Brown kept us out of it)
By Peter Oborne
Last updated at 1:32 AM on 06th February 2010
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Twenty years ago, at the height of the last recession, Britain faced many of the same terrible problems that we do today. Unemployment was mounting to record levels, economic growth had ceased and government borrowing was out of control.
Yet there was one vital difference: there was precisely nothing that the British government could do about all this because of our membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, the system of fixed exchange rates which was the precursor to the European single currency.
John Major, the Prime Minister, had no choice but to set his economic policies according to the demands of the ERM.
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This meant that he was obliged to ignore the real problems then facing Britain - the terrifying level of home repossessions, the soaring interest rates and joblessness.
At the time, all conventional wisdom was in favour of clinging to this madcap idea of the Exchange Rate Mechanism. The Tories, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry were passionate supporters.
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It was only financial Armageddon, in the shape of Black Wednesday on September 16, 1992, that forced the Government to quit the straitjacket of the ERM - an event that thankfully allowed us to take control of our own economic policies again and set this country back on course to recovery.
Today, exactly the same problems are being faced in the eurozone, and for exactly the same reason. The governments of Greece, Portugal, Spain and a number of other European countries face terrifying levels of unemployment and public debt.
Yet they are wholly unable to confront the problems because of their membership of the single currency.
And as with Britain in the early 1990s, all the wise heads insist that the Greeks and Spanish have no choice but to stay with the euro. Jean-Claude Trichet, the arrogant governor and profoundly stupid head of the European Central Bank, believes it would be a disaster if Greece and Spain quit the euro. So does German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
So do the investment bankers Goldman Sachs, who - with what appears to be breathtaking incompetence - are trying to help the Greeks to sell government bonds. So does the Financial Times (a newspaper which, despite claiming to be expert on economics, has a long record of being 100 per cent wrong in its major economic judgment calls).
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The reality is the exact opposite. The roof would not fall in if Greece and Spain pulled out of the euro. Indeed, both countries would at once start to recover.
Let us look again at what happened here in Britain in 1992. The experts warned that all hell would break loose if we pulled out of the ERM.
They told us that Britain would lose international credibility, that the country would be unable to sell government bonds, that inflation would surge ahead, and that the economy would collapse.
And then along came Black Wednesday. Rather than causing our economic collapse, it marked the start of the longest period of growth that the British economy has ever experienced because we were finally able to reduce interest rates and the value of the pound.
I have no doubt something very similar will happen to Greece the moment it bites the bullet, abandons the euro and returns to its ancient national currency, the drachma.
The Greek government will then be able to do what John Major and Ken Clarke achieved after Black Wednesday, namely manage the national economy themselves rather than take orders from Brussels.
Once out of the euro, the Greeks can quickly restore their economic competitiveness by reducing interest rates and lowering the value of the currency - just as we in Britain did after 1992.
Eventually the rules of economics dictate that this will happen, and Greece will recover. Tragically for the people of Greece, however, the process may take some time because the tiny political elite that governs Europe is utterly determined not to allow it. There is far too much at stake for the likes of Trichet, Merkel and the Brussels machine.
These eurocrats know that if Greece, Spain and Portugal pull out of the euro their cherished dream of a single European nation will die. So they will do everything they can to keep the euro intact.
Over the coming months, this will mean stripping the Greek government of all political and economic power, and insisting that all decisions which matter to that country are dictated from Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt, the headquarters of the European Central Bank.
The truth is that Greece, in return for remaining in the euro, is quickly being turned from a sovereign state into an economic protectorate of the European Union.
This is an extraordinarily heartless course of action. It means utterly humiliating the government of Greece and punishing the Greek people with mass unemployment and savage public spending cuts on a scale unprecedented in their history.
We will learn over the coming years whether this brutal, authoritarian and undemocratic policy will work. My guess is that it must fail. Market forces will eject Greece from the euro, just as they threw Britain out of the ERM all those years ago on Black Wednesday.
Now, let's play a terrifying mind game. Let's imagine that Tony Blair had achieved his ambition as Prime Minister and succeeded in abolishing the pound and taking Britain into the euro. We would today be in exactly the same position as Greece.
For the past two years Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling would have had no latitude whatsoever to conduct Britain's economic policy. We would not have been able to reduce interest rates to keep business and homeowners above water. We could never have allowed sterling to depreciate - the currency has fallen by one quarter over the past two years, making our exports far more competitive on the world market.
Unemployment would consequently be far higher than it is now, while our national deficit would be much larger than the present £200 billion. We would have been completely unable to sell our bonds on the international markets - and also unable to print money to pay our bills, as we have done through quantitative easing over the past 12 months.
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling would now be taking direct orders from Angela Merkel and the European Central Bank, just as poor Greece is today. Our national humiliation would be complete, and British sovereignty held in worldwide contempt.
Fortunately we managed to stay out of the euro. Britain faces awesome problems in the years ahead, but at least we can face them as a self-governing nation, and not as a European protectorate.
Gordon Brown has made many mistakes as Prime Minister, but this weekend it is clearer than ever that we are all in his debt for stopping Tony Blair making the calamitous mistake of entering the euro.
Crime statistics: Chris Grayling
Lies, damned lies and a warning for CameronOne of the most invidious legacies of 12 years of New Labour is the collapse of public trust in politicians.
This has occurred in part because New Labour persistently lied to the voters, whether it was Tony Blair on Weapons of Mass Destruction ahead of the Iraq invasion, Gordon Brown repeatedly fabricating economic statistics or the day-to-day mendacity of Alastair Campbell. One of the most urgent tasks facing David Cameron if he becomes Prime Minister is to end this horrible culture of deceit.
This is why a little-noticed episode last week concerning the shadow home secretary Chris Grayling is so very troubling. Recently, Grayling sent a press release to every constituency in England and Wales apparently showing that violent crime had soared during the New Labour years in power. Unfortunately, this release was misleading because it failed to take account of the fact that Home Office methods of collecting statistics on violent crime had changed several years ago.
On Thursday, Sir Michael Scholar, the austere and fair-minded former Whitehall permanent secretary who now heads the UK Statistical Authority, issued a stern rebuke to Grayling, warning that his press release seems 'likely to mislead the public'. The correct reaction from Chris Grayling would have been to throw up his hands at once, admit that he had made an error, and apologise.
Sadly, Grayling has not done this. Indeed, he is unrepentant and has pledged to carry on using his misleading statistics in defiance of Sir Michael's warning.
It is impossible to overstate how depressing this episode is, especially for someone like me who very much hopes that David Cameron will become the next Prime Minister.
If Cameron is prepared to allow one of his most senior spokesmen to use the same seedy tactics of spin and deception as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did, he does not deserve to enter Downing Street. Cameron must slap down Grayling at once, or he will surrender his own reputation as a man of integrity.
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