The Times is forecasting another French revolution, I see. How exciting!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

"The credit agency warned that President Francois Hollande’s Socialist executive had backed itself into a dead end, with the result that unemployment could remain at a dangerously high level for at least the next two years.

The assessment, although couched in the insipid language of financiers, fuelled concern that France stood on the verge of the sort of bloody uprising that has marked its history."

[Berni]

Of course, the downside is that one will have to find somewhere else to take one's holibobs. :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Pimpernel-stylee. "Sink meh! Your tailors have betrayed you!" and so forth.

[Berni]

wine before popping home?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

stripped of such luxuries. Hollande will be holed up in his dacha surrounded by cases of Petrus and Pommard, while the ordinary French people beg for un petit morceau de brioche and drink that bloody awful Badoit.

[Luis Anaconda]

Maybe they should let a benevolent neighbour take them over for a bit. You know, a country that is doing well economically and maybe needs a bit more living space

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

[Berni]

Essentially, nice restaurants, vineyards, le gavage, street markets and sitting around idly in pavement cafes.

The rest of it is of no interest to me.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I can get from my front door to Brussels Midi in 3 hours now. wd Eurostar.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

God knows I need a rest.

March. Wet season safari in Zambia or whale-watching in Sri Lanka? What say you la?

[Classic Jorge]

It's amazing just how little of a massively flawed system has actually changed following the global financial crash. Basically most of the western world financed their massive, massive f**k up seemingly so they could carry on f**king up in just the same massive, massive fashion.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Luis Anaconda]

You wouldn't want to get wet

[Classic Jorge]

I mean, if old Twitchy McOneeye had negotiated proper deals along with the blank cheques he wrote they could have twinned state funding with some real financial leverage to fund business lending to UK SMEs in key growth sectors and we wouldnt have had so much atrophy in the economy over the last five years.

I'm sure that's *just* what a stalinist *would* say though

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

You can have that one on me.

[Snin]

they collapsed yes ? the ones that work hand in glove with city and banks and take backhanders yes ? fecking scum of the earth Sir C..I would have them against the wall with bullets in them quick smart after my revolution..then invade France of course

[Classic Jorge]

I never had you down as an anarcho-marxist, c

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

we're necessarily supposed to treat his every word as gospel.

The man ended up getting stabbed behind the arras. And richly deserved it.

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

Like some sort of classical monty

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I who said it.

It is merely advice. I did not claim to be presenting mystical tablets of stone.

[Berni]

[Berni]

I mean, he was pretty much irrelevant by then, anyway.

[Classic Jorge]

thorough *******s

[Berni]

I mean, no-one minds the security services bumping off the odd person in the course of business - all part of the game, after all.

But bumping them off when they're no longer on the pitch and are essentially sitting in the stands seems unprofessional and petty.

[Classic Jorge]

at the risk of rererererereigniting one of the internet's oldest debates, they really are acting like nazis.

[Berni]

To be fair, you can sort of understand why.

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

"You think you can fúck with us for 50 years and then quietly retire?" :hehe:

wd Mossad.

[Berni]

If a chap gets away with it for that long, he should get a pat on the back and 'Well done, you old swine!', not a pot of poloniated hummus.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Thank fúck your sort were never allowed anywhere near the Circus, b. We'd all be speaking commie by now.

[Berni]

Oh, by the way, I got a press release about this the other day and wondered if you might want it to keep out intruder cats? Or can they not get into the stockade?

http://www.sureflap.co.uk/

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I think we're ok at the moment. We did have a visitor who was able to get in, but not out - but we haven't seen him for a while.

[Lar d'Arse]

toxicology tests on Arafat when he died in order to rule out poisoning and found nothing, and expressly reported this.

There is a lot about all this that makes little sense.