Relampago

Now compare something as simple as a prison or the transport system of Spain with something similar in Uganda ... Or just distribution of wealth, to name a few things

You will notice some differences

Relampago

rugbymatt

I didn't compare.

Lenox

Well, the point is - we should be comparing Spain to other EU countries rather than to Uganda. There are some differences here, just ask Carlos Divar, president of the Supreme Court (until Thursday, perhaps...).

Fredbargate

A lot of the population get a little. Uganda
A little of the population get a lot. Spain

bobd22

Re your comments about buying the wheelbarrow due to inflation and your comments re QE (which I think you are right and it won't just be the UK I think the ECB will be firing up as well). It got me thinking of our life savings and what they may be worth in a few years time with inflation (luckily my pensions index linked) and I was wondering how the savings rates were back in the last 2 periods of heavy and created devaluation of £ and high inflation and found this interesting table, given current rates and how inflation could soar with QE. http://swanlowpark.co.uk/bank0604.jsp

Domino

if you need a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread
how many wheelbarrows of money will it take to buy a wheelbarrow ? ?

I have 2 that i can lease out at a very v e r y good rate

Relampago

Maybe in other countries who think are more democratic than Spain this would not be known, while another in Spain, indicating that our anti-corruption system works, and we have no complexes. It's like when talk about domestic violence in Spain, when in the Nordic countries and North America is where statistically there is more domestic violence

Oh yeah, compare to Spain with other European countries, for example beginning with Switzerland, paradise and nest of all the fortunes of much of the filth of the world (dictators, criminals, etc); Sweden, very clean with its nature and almost finished with a Spanish natural park because of a toxic spill;UK, when it hid to the continent a disease, the " mad cow disease "; Germany skipping the Stability Pact several times and forcing Spain to reduce its deficit in one year (when Germany had all the years I wanted to do)...etc, etc, etc

Lessons to another part

agoreira

agoreira

UK was quite open about it, it would have been hard to hide it. I think you'll find it was the likes of Spain and France that did the hiding. By the way, see you had another case this month, tucked away in the news.
http://www.heraldo.es/noticias/nacio...90313_305.html

rugbymatt

Why? Why poke the bear? You know what he will do, we will get a page and a half of comparisons now!

agoreira

Guilty as charged, m'lud. I normally ignore his childish rants, but I thought it was incredible (even by his standards) the claim we hid mad cow, you couldn't turn on the tv without seeing funeral pyres everywhere., farmers distraught.

rugbymatt

(Shhh, I think you mean foot and mouth) Although your point still stands, we were more than open about BSE.

steviedeluxe

Well it seems the stories were true. The UK is to fire up yet more QE, but the big news is from the EU. Maybe Rajoy did know the pressure was to ease and consequently we'll see those bond figures deflate...of course the money will need to be paid back, but it will be at low interest. Meanwhile the cost to the rest of us will increase in terms of higher inflation and higher taxes (at the same time as cuts in services).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...countries-debt

Dick Dasterdly

As always Stevie your optimism is to be admired.
By the way I wonder what you would consider to be a low interest rate ?
The present rate or anything close to it is clearly non-sustainable, so do you envisage a dramatic drop of several percent if Angie is as good as her word ?