The French............

Grimreaper666

looks like the French are up to their old anti-social habits again and objecting to the cut on our bail out rate. From now on i'm not buying any of their stuff, anyone else with me?

MrMatisse

To the Bastille!

Krusader

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

looks like the French are up to their old anti-social habits again and objecting to the cut on our bail out rate. From now on i'm not buying any of their stuff, anyone else with me?

I'm smashing up my Renault as i type

mikemac

Off with their heads

Biggins

Thats Sarkosy up to his usual smug antics again.
Its been commented a number of times that he's doing this for populist/upcoming election reasons.

Catari Jaguar

WHAT? *spits out Cuisine de France breakfast roll*

syklops

Crosáidí wrote: »

I'm smashing up my Renault as i type

You should do that any way.

admiralofthefleet

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

looks like the French are up to their old anti-social habits again and objecting to the cut on our bail out rate. From now on i'm not buying any of their stuff, anyone else with me?

yep im with you, i was only thinking yesterday about setting up a facebook group calling for a boycott on french goods
they are cheating bastards as well

CiaranC

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

yep im with you, i was only thinking yesterday about setting up a facebook group calling for a boycott on french goods

A facebook group. Im sure the French central bank are ****ting themselves

mikemac

We could send over Enda Kenny to them. The French will just surrender at a hint of pressure

Mrmoe

From now on I am going to call french fries freedom fries chips.

BluePlanet

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

looks like the French are up to their old anti-social habits again and objecting to the cut on our bail out rate. From now on i'm not buying any of their stuff, anyone else with me?

What, are you refering to this latest IT article?
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0514/breaking7.html

If you notice, not a single French source is quoted.
In reality this article is little more than a platform for irish government spin.
We are given nothing but the Irish government's version of the position of the French government.

Poor journalism.

admiralofthefleet

CiaranC wrote: »

A facebook group. Im sure the French central bank are ****ting themselves

me too, but if 100 people swapped french goods for irish it would help jobs

johngalway

It's electioneering from that toad Sarky. Not nice to see the French at this, they're usually quite friendly towards Ireland.

Biggins

johngalway wrote: »

It's electioneering from that toad Sarky. Not nice to see the French at this, they're usually quite friendly towards Ireland.

In fairness, they still are (and I'm sure you will agree).
Its just another example of political parties exploiting an issue for self gain.
Lord knows our political lot do the same - and we don't blame the rest of the public (rightly so) for the actions of these jingoistic, vote grabbing stunt, stirring plebs.

Aidric

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

From now on i'm not buying any of their stuff, anyone else with me?

No.

hondasam

No more holidays in France for me.

johngalway

Biggins wrote: »

In fairness, they still are (and I'm sure you will agree).

I do, which is why I called Sarky a toad and not the French And to be fair, I called Biffo and Bertie a lot worse

Saila

deja vu

sollar

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

looks like the French are up to their old anti-social habits again and objecting to the cut on our bail out rate. From now on i'm not buying any of their stuff, anyone else with me?

What that would mean we couldn't buy any of their exceptionally reliable cars

Biggins

johngalway wrote: »

I do, which is why I called Sarky a toad and not the French And to be fair, I called Biffo and Bertie a lot worse

No argument there! Well done sir! :pac:

ejmaztec

Let them eat gateaux

peckerhead

Qu'il fasse pleurer le petit jésus.

bleg

Our debt is in or around 200 billion

That's 200,000,000,000.

A 1% cut in the interest rate is worth 400 million: 400,000,000.

This interest rate talk is just a smoke screen to distract from the ****ing gigantic elephant in the room, and it's working.

Biggins

bleg wrote: »

...This interest rate talk is just a smoke screen to distract from the ****ing gigantic elephant in the room, and it's working.

There is some truth there.

ejmaztec

He'll run away screaming if we give him a dirty look, the big girl's blouse.

Alter-Ego

Sacrebleu!

ejmaztec

Kick him up the Arse De Triomphe

dotsman

bleg wrote: »

Our debt is in or around 200 billion

That's 200,000,000,000.

A 1% cut in the interest rate is worth 400 million: 400,000,000.

This interest rate talk is just a smoke screen to distract from the ****ing gigantic elephant in the room, and it's working.

Actually, the figure is currently circa 150 Billion.

The interest rate adjustment is on the IMF/EU package which is 85 Billion. 1% of 85 Billion is 850 million. That's 850 million less each year. Given the compounding factor over many years, it's worth many billion of euro to this country. Now, if you want to play that down and deem it to be nothing, then I think you are still thinking like the gob****es who got us into this mess.

bnt

France is a bit like Ireland, in that it can be divided in to (a) the capital and (b) everywhere else. Even more so, since France is 8x the size of Ireland. I would advise against judging the whole of France by what goes on in (and comes out of) Paris. That goes for the Napoleon Sarkozy government too.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Damn those cheese eating surrender monkeys, why won't they just give us free money?!

They still owe us big time for the world cup!

saywhatyousee

dotsman wrote: »

Actually, the figure is currently circa 150 Billion.

The interest rate adjustment is on the IMF/EU package which is 85 Billion. 1% of 85 Billion is 850 million. That's 850 million less each year. Given the compounding factor over many years, it's worth many billion of euro to this country. Now, if you want to play that down and deem it to be nothing, then I think you are still thinking like the gob****es who got us into this mess.

Out of the 85 billion did we not put up 17.5 billion out of the pension reserve fund?

Dionysus

bleg wrote: »

Our debt is in or around 200 billion

That's 200,000,000,000.

A 1% cut in the interest rate is worth 400 million: 400,000,000.

This interest rate talk is just a smoke screen to distract from the ****ing gigantic elephant in the room, and it's working.

That, and an obviously winnable issue - we will get a rate cut, and more - to give the new Irish government something to claim a "victory" with. The spin now being to portray huge objections to the cut in the continent is designed to make the new Irish government's imminent securing of the cut seem like a greater achievement than it really will be.

Basic, very basic politics, in other words.


When all is said and done this new government is doing the same as the last government had to do and would still be doing, and it's being advised by the same senior civil servants every step of the way. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

bleg

dotsman wrote: »

Actually, the figure is currently circa 150 Billion.

The interest rate adjustment is on the IMF/EU package which is 85 Billion. 1% of 85 Billion is 850 million. That's 850 million less each year. Given the compounding factor over many years, it's worth many billion of euro to this country. Now, if you want to play that down and deem it to be nothing, then I think you are still thinking like the gob****es who got us into this mess.

It's not nothing. It's just nothing compared to the rest.

Biggins

* Sarkosy is trying to screw us (again)!
* The EU members are already screwing us (http://tinyurl.com/68gznn8) to the tune of €1.3 Billion extra a year
...And our pissing useless government is doing nothing but whimpering and grovelling to the bullies of Europe.

One way or another, we're fcuked!

gandalf

I love France and the French (sure the missus is one). This is all electioneering from a very unpopular Sarkozy. Merkel in Germany has been up to the same thing.

We are being used as the bogey men to try and gain themselves a few percentage points in an election.