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At least the photos I post have some relevance. I'm not sure what yours even depicts, let alone what relevance it has to anything.

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Exports may well be on the up and up, but considering the whole plight of the country it is a mere drop in the ocean.

Sort of like worrying about a pimple on your nose when you are at deaths door.:(

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If you really can't see it (your obsession with the US, and your tendency to divert numerous threads into talking about it) then I feel sorry for you!
But interesting that you feel you have a right to post images time and time again (and to be fair some have been amusing) but as soon as someone returns the favour you throw your toys out of the pram. :p

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Precisely. Couldn't have put it better myself. :)

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Au contraire, the only way EU countries (and the UK too) are going to get out this mess is by selling to countries in the rest of the world that are growing.
For instance Talgo are expanding their factories in the north, because of export deals.
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/s...ryg1hU.twitter
Now you can argue that it's not enough or that the progress needs to be even quicker, but it is the way out (eventually) of the mess. I wish more emphasis was placed on this in the UK; instead we waste time on issues like the bedroom tax, or just sneering at EU countries on talkboard forums.
It's a tough competitive world out there, and things are not going to get easier.

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Apparently I'm just too daft to have made that connection, but then again, that's your view, not mine, so naturally it wouldn't automatically register in my mind...

Nonetheless, it seemed to take you only a fraction of a second to acknowledge the relevance of the photo I posted. But I reckon you're just smarter than me. ;)

My apologies. Carry on...

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Spain is in a right mess now, but even when things were going well, it still did not filter down to the poorer groups of the population .

In times of "vacas gordas" there was still no real help for this disabled, poor pensioners and the unemployed.

There might have been plenty of money to award big contracts to build airports and such, but Spain did nothing for the people on the street.

All the talk about exports picking up/booming do little to appease the general population.

While we are on the subject of bedroom tax and such, if UK only gave the same level of help to its welfare recipients as they do in Spain (derisory) then they would be out of the crisis.

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True, exports aren't making much difference. I don't think anyone of us disputed that exports weren't up. Stevie forgot to mention the few days old news that the European Commission have revised Spain's deficit up, someone had been trying to do a bit of creative accounting ie. put Decembers payments into January:lol: Though the export news gave him chance to push his oft mentioned sites:sneaky:

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Meanwhile the judge is still looking for more secret accounts in Switzerland, some were doing OK.:)

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Some has always done OK, another account in Luxembourg has been found with 160k euros in it, in the name of the partner of Duque Urdanga de Manga.

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In fact a new verb has been born = urdangar, and it seems there is no end to the amount of urdangando going on by the urdangeros or should that be urdangistas?

For the curious it is a regular verb-

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And now Spain is trying to rip off the old, less well off of the visitors as well. The UK NHS pays Spain to treat these people, but they are refusing in some cases and trying to railroad people into expensive private care. Nice to see the EU stopping it!!!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...HIC-usage.html

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Never...............;)

But look on the bright side....exports are doing well.

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Must confess to having had to look up escrache a while back, that was new to me.

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An interesting development, that has become popular recently, much to the annoyance of the ones caught with their hands in the till and other "tipos".

I think there should be a lot more of it myself.