S&P Give France a Reality Check
Though the economic prospect of a French downgrade is rather scary, the political repercussions are frankly hilarious. Sarkozy is in an election year for one, and his head of the Banque de France has oeuf all over his face. Back in December a mighty row broke out when Christian Noyer said that Britain’s credit rating should be downgraded before them. It was a typical attempt to try to drag us down with them. Well S&P have spoken.
As Lord Nelson might have said “I see no credit downgrade.”
this brings joy to my heart.
No wonder Shortozy has been sniffing Merkels bum.
says the expert bum and cock sniffer.
Up yours Froggy!
“As Lord Nelson might have said “I see no credit downgrade.”"
Oh no he didn’t, he said “Zere is no ‘arm in it”!
I don’t rate these rating agencies.
Who controls them and wtf should I take their word for anything?
Time for a good fisting!
Well he is not tall enough to sniff anything else.
Looking for truffles?
Don’t be nasty.
Sarkozy is the best politician in France.
Are you sure that jumped-up little showman is a politician? I thought he was France’s answer to Alex Salmond.
Thought he was in hiding from a dwarf throwing contest
It’s not big, and it’s not clever.
(actually, that applies both to both dwarf-throwing AND Nicholas Sarkozy.)
All true, but 17 is still correct.
Dwarf tossing?
That’s my job!
Hopefully, the tragedy that befell this undeserving bloke will be visited on Sarcoma:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9009559/Dwarf-left-paralysed-after-being-thrown-by-drunken-Rugby-fan.html
Postscript– I got this from Billy Bowden’s @Ontablets Twitter feed; how pathetic am I?
first crack in the edifice…EU collapse will give excuse for the Germans to undertake thier 4th Reich plans via economic rather than military means. Resist.
Yvette, get yer Panzers down. Today Austria and France, tomorrow the world.
Expect announcement by S&P at 8PM GMT
And the greek debt wrie off will not be volentary
Get out of that Merkle
It’s out now.
Put it back you dirty fucker.
I have – in Carla’s mouth.
Chier mes amis, à mon cou dans la merde.
Is that why she is Bruni?
I love Dawkins…but things like this make me wonder….is God there after all ?
Dawkins is a shifty little bastard.
Where can we read you full critique?
Er, it’s not a critique it’s a fact.
Agreed. Brilliant anthropologist, shit philosopher/theologian. The idiot-savant’s idiot-savant.
Umm. No.
Who the fuck do you think you are, God?
No. There is no god, therefore I cannot be god. Sheesh! It’s not hard!
That’s a pretty god like thing to say IMHO. You’re just a speck of protoplasm that’s just recently evolved from the primal slime, what the fuck do you know?
Ooh. Them’s fighting words. I’m tutoring my first year astro-phys. students on the origins of the universe tomorrow at 11:00. I’ll send you the notes if you’d like, but I’m not sure you’d understand them. Start with ‘The Physics of Stars’ by A.C. Phillips – Chapter 1 – Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Should help.
That’s a bit heavy for Year 1 students isn’t it? Most of them will be still in the wee-filled shoes and nasty knickers stage.
Look mate, you could say that the sun didn’t come up today, but who really gives a fuck? When it comes down to it, Big Bang Theory is no better at explaining the origins of the universe than Genesis with equations, you dumb twat.
It’s a tough old world. Most of them will have moved over to art history by next year anyway. Don’t worry, we save the heavy maths for later…
This conversation is clearly over. Thanks though, it was fun. I particularly enjoyed your extensive vocabulary.
Piss off back to the primal soup where you belong, upstart.
So you cannot defend the big-bang theory then?
Umm, so-so sitcom, at best. No, I can’t defend it. Who watches it anyway?
@Very special special…That’s why Genesis had to split up. We had no equations.
There is a god = There is no god – two sides of the same inane coin.
Not whilst Brown has his one good eye, and Blair has both hi legs.
W.W.
That might just convince me. I’ll start praying just in case.
In a universe created by an all-knowing infallible deity, there could be no place for the likes of Blair and Brown. Either there is no God, or He, just like the rest of us, it prone to making some serious fuckups.
Or this is hell and we get what we deserve.
Is there an option d? Please?
First clear-sighted thought in this chain of speculation among some of the more deluded of the currently dominant species of parasite on the third rock from an insignificant sun which God forgot about long ago. In fact I doubt he even noticed that he had created it while he was thinking of ways of occupying the rival gangs of unemployed angels and demons who were making such a racket in Heaven.
You are Phillip Pullman and I claim my five pounds.
When God designed us, She factored in free will. B & B want to be as they are, we just have to live with the consequences of their actions. If Labour hadn’t been so desperate for power, and we’ed been more discerning in 1997, it wouldn’t have happened.
Giving Man free will? That’s like giving a toddler a Kalashnikov.
Mais non, c’est merde, merde, merde.
Sea France. Triple M rated.
That’s what you get if you only work 35 hours a week!
That’s a bit too generous…the average Frenchman finishes pour le weekend at 12 noon Friday and doesn’t return to the office until 12 Noon Monday in time for lunch which lasts about 2 hours usually when everything closes down….much the same for August when the whole of France closes down pour les vacances and they head a la mer
Very true. And then you have to take into account all the time taken up with moaning about working conditions.
And 30 days a year paid striking.
Not to mention all the wasted time spent speculating about whether a table, window or fucking door-knob is masculine or feminine.
Loons, the lot of ‘em.
Self evidetly,
A table is feminine because it gets laid.
A window is feminine because you can easily see through it.
A f*cking door-knob is masculine for obvious reasons.
Easily see through a woman?
That’ll be a first.
Men are from Mars. Women are INSANE!
In-the-Seine shurley
They have borrowed too much and their economy is controlled by the Germans who will act only in the interest of Germany, so S&P’s decision seems perfectly reasonable.
Any country with a socialist leaning administration should by default have it’s credit rating downgraded – would save lots of economic modelling and surely be an even better indicator of economic prudence.
Scotland is fucked then.
Well, they certainly should be by the time we’ve given them the RBS and HBOS debt to deal with – they can’t have the assets (oil) without the Liabilities (banking bailout).
Alistair Darling was very honest about it pointing out that the UK banking crisis was not made in the City or on Wall Street, it was created in Edinburgh courtesy of RBS.
Fred Good- forfuckall-win did such a good job, Brown knighted him.
Though on second thoughts I would have knighted him as well namely for
A) Services to the destruction of the banking industry
B) Adultery in the workplace
He excelled in both.
Alex Salmond is quoted in today’s Times as being adamant that an independent Scotland will not take any of Britain’s debt.
The colossal fuckups by Scotland’s bankers were all due to Westminster, apparently.
Fine.
We’ll take their banks and their bank debt. Then we’ll rename the banks, fire every fucker in Scotland, close every fucking branch in Fucking Scotland and relocate to England. Let Salmond pay their dole and housing benefit.
And if they want to make a withdrawal then they can drive down to Newcastle. Or open a new bank account with the Dunfermline BS or whoever is left solvent in Fucking Scotland.
Fine.
We’ll take their banks and their bank debt. Then we’ll rename the banks, fire every fucker in Scotland, close every fucking branch in Fucking Scotland and relocate to England. Let Salmond pay their dole and housing benefit.
And if they want to make a withdrawal then they can dr*i*ve down to Newcastle. Or open a new bank account with the Dunfermline BS or whoever is left solvent in Fucking Scotland.
Yes, but then you’d have to feel sorry for the people of Newcastle on a Friday night!
UK’s national debt in 1997 = £350bn.
Scotland’s share of the population is 8% therefore Scotland’s share of the pre-1997 debt = £28bn.
Current national debt after 13 years of a Scottish run UK government = £1400bn.
So Scotland’s share of the debt is £1050bn plus £28bn = £1078bn, or £1.078 trillion!!!
Are they sure that they want to be independent? Then again, given the chance to offload £1.1 trillion of debt, do we want them to stay?
Dunfermline Building Society went tits up as well and had to be bailed out by Nationwide Anglia.
Also if fat Alec wants England to maintain responsibility for the RBS the Scottish headquarters should be closed and moved to England. Pay minimum redundancy and have done with it.
As I recall Scotland only joined the union in the first place because it’s economy was a wreck. It just wanted the English to pay for it’s mistakes which has become rather monotonous now. It’s the English that should get a vote on Scotland remaining in the UK.
Don’t forget Bank of Scotland which dragged down Halifax and Lloyds.
Interestingly none of the shit banks or building societies were from the City – RBS, HBOS, Northern Rock, Alliance & Leicester, Bradford and Bingley.
Another subsidy from London and the SE to Labour heartlands.
If Labour were still in power, we’d had been downgraded months ago.
we’d have.
screw you autocorrect!!!
Can’t see it. The French will simply stop recognising S&P as they did when they were ‘erroneously’ downgraded in August.
They’ll cry foul and stick their heads in the sand.
That’ll leave their arses in the air, ready for the first thrust.
Yum, yum I’m off to France.
I could really show the French how to fuck up an economy!
Wrong again.
There’s a bloke who believes in a 100% income tax band (>360k pa), and full planning of the economy. By him. He’s about the “3rd from left” in the spectrum of candidates for president.
Wow, that would really encourage ambition and help to promote innovation!
Err. well how’s about “when a boss sells a company its the workers who should be allowed to buy all the tools”.
Here’s one. How about the unions use all their subscriptions to buy the companies in which they work.
Then the workers really would own the means of production.
But they don’t want to do that. They want to spend all their time shit-stirring and second-guessing the management without any of the actual responsibility or consequences of actually being management. Like making the books add up.
Having brought their unique brand of fuckwittery to the previously state-owned UK manufacturing sector and destroyed that they’ve now turned their imbecile attention to what remains of the state sector.
Yes like Sea France. French jobs for French workers. Ho, ho, ho.
+oodles
I think it was called Clydeside Shipbuilders.
Or am I mixing it up with the Co-op
Or the John Lewis Partnership
Poor Sarkozy this will make him feel very small.
*chuckle*!
Obviously no longer infuriated.
That’s very sarky of you to say that…
I still say we should have joined the Euro.
Me too.
My single greatest regret in government is I never twatted the pair of you.
We’d still join
What’s the difference between the French and a tarantula ?
The spider’s still got its’ 3 A’s
Please close the door as you leave the room
I knew it was shit the moment I sent it….
I can only apologise and I promise to just lurk from now on
Oh dear. It took me three reads to get it. Roll on weekend.
Fort you was shit-ot at maffs, like wot i dun at Imperial
Tony Blair = c’unt.
The only statement anyone wants to read from Tony Blair is the one that ends, “and that is why I have decided to take my own life.”
+1
Of course. The man is living Saint, he never lied to trick the country into a war leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and is in no way benefiting financially from his previous role or working to minimise his tax burden.
Pace Envoy to the ME – more sick than ironic.
‘unpaid pro bono work in the Middle East’
U2 Blair?
Of course
I am in the charity business you know
That is why I take a large cut on all I, do
ROFL
There’s no business like the charity business
I make billions off it…
He is still, and always will be a war criminal and liar.
It is a nice question as to whether we should let the Scotch have their referendum now or leave it until when Salmond wants so we can then be sure of ridding ourselves of the fuckers.
It’s “Scots”
There are 52 million of us who say Scotch down here.
How many of you are there?
if we ignore the record number of single mums, those on benefits, and per capita prison population, plus those that are just pissed or stoned, not a lot.
Yes. I will miss Scotland … as I would miss my arsehole should it ever heal up.
Dear Scotland,
Good luck with the Euro.
laters
England
x
BTW Why were you confusing SC with Paragnostic earlier?
Richard O’Dwyer loses court battle to prevent extradition to US. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the decision if you were the judge and this fella rolled up in your court wearing a soiled t shirt with Mickey Mouse looking through his legs at you would you be impressed? Personally I’d have driven the bloke to the airport.
And by the way Shortarzy, you’re fucked.
yes but look who he has chosen to be F*****D by
The French fucks can all fuck off
Traitors, collaborators, cowards, knaves and cu’nts
France is too big for its boots.
Don’t laugh too loud – we’re next
All the more reason to have a fucking good laugh at them now!
France = First. Tough tittie Billy B.
This one would have been a better use of young Master Muntz:
http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/lord%20nelson%20muntz.gif
Guido
Good point about the Banque de France
But this is an utter condemnation of the whole dirigiste French technostructure….
and they did not even see it coming despite deficit financing for 30 years !
It is also a condemnation of socialism in all its forms…
That being said, the UK the fuckwitted Blair Brown Mandelson Ponzi scheme
managed to run up the same deficitis in 13 years which it took the French to do in 30 years…
and thereby ruin Britain’s finances
It is only a matter of time before the UK gets the same treatment…
‘Ello, eez zat Ocean Finance?
No
eez Mandy ere
Can lend you buckets of francs at 30% per yir
I av a private bank now
It all goes to show
If all you Europeans ate, drank and consumed half of what you do at the moment
You would all be healthier, weallthier, wiser and happier than you now are
Just a deep thought on a Friday evening
PS A Chinese Minister said yesterday
“It is astonishing that European leaders let themselves get into this situation”
“It is astonishing that Europe*an leaders let themselves get into this situation”
Indeed. But the problem you have is that half the electorate is less intelligent than average. And lets be honest – average is pretty fucking stupid too. So if you’re a politician and interested in strutting about with all the power and prestige that involves you have two choices. You can waste time coming up with complicated arguments and policies and pledging to be careful with the nation’s economic well-being.
Or you can promise stupid people lots of free stuff. Paid for by them over there. The ‘rich’ because they can afford it and it’s only right and fair that we take money off them and give it to you. Because you deserve it. Vote Labour/socialist.
And that’s how Europe*an leaders let themselves get into this situation. It became a competition to promise more free stuff to stupid people. And when the ‘rich’ could be fleeced no longer they paid for all the free stuff with borrowed money.
This is the position Fucking Scotland now finds itself in. It’s in a race to bank*ru*p*cy between Labour and the SNP to promise more free stuff in order to gain re-election.
Yes, they should follow the dietary habits of our Scottish friends, deep fried Mars bars swilled down with Buckie cocktails. Izz thart yew mary dholl?
It’s only really the brits who eat and drink too much.
Me, you really need to get out more if that’s what you think. The Yanks are way ahead of the Brits in the stuff your face race.
How the hell do you downgrade the French ?
+20
+ever so many. Well said.
Too true, cobber.
WIll Chris Bryant allow normal people into the Strangers Bar now?
Usually gays object to normal people coming into their bars
Especially women on girlies evenings…!!
The last time I saw Y fronts,
He came dancing…
Strictly, I hope!
Does Bryant use the back passage to get into the Strangers Bar? He really is a loud mouthed twat, hiding behind the “I’m a gay set”, so fucking what, you are just another labour sponger.
If all the French banned themselves to St. Helena, they could use GBP again. Simps
France is a beautifully diverse country. Only one problem though!
Eey em needeng ze cling-film fer may keeyboard
Has the AA been downgraded yet?
Yes, it’s the AB now.
Well at least Blockbusters has been upgraded to Blackbusters.
Context! best regards Diane Abbott.
Ve should bust a few more blicks
All Blacks is unfortunate! (In a heavy Yaapie accent)
You have to be very careful in NZ. Did she say ‘six’ or ‘sex’ ? Yis indeed.
AB negative: a rare group!
Tony Blair SPAD to the stupidly rich.
Genesis! Phwoar!
Is S & P some sort of sexual deviation? By Jove, I must try some
Me too but my bum’s blocked up.
Spit and Polish. Speeks for itself.
You can’t polish a turd – apparently.
Sbrkozy doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I’ve just gone up a notch
She’s fit.
Had to downgrade the cleanliness rating of my boxers.
You should get some French poodles. They are self-cleaning.
Laughed – laughed?
I fair pissed myself!
this is too fucking good
can we expect the BBC’s chief economic apologist Gavin Esler to ask the establishment why it still insists Britain must be handcuffed to the corps of Europe?
No, I thought not
“corpse’ please sunny Jim.
Esler – my life already, oy veh.
We have always been, are and God willing always will be detested by the French – Duke of Wellington. As true today as then!
Plus ca change etc..
…….and we reciprocate heartily.