I thought we were in massive debt?

[DimPrawn]

UK pledges £7bn to help bail Ireland out of debt crisis - Telegraph

So, let's get this straight. We MUST cut our own public spending becuase of a record breaking deficit. UK citizens must suffer the pain.

But hey, the Irish, who have been having a whale of a time speculating on property are worthy of £7bn of money we don't have?

You couldn't make this tulip up.

[kandr]

UK pledges £7bn to help bail Ireland out of debt crisis - Telegraph

So, let's get this straight. We MUST cut our own public spending becuase of a record breaking deficit. UK citizens must suffer the pain.

But hey, the Irish, who have been having a whale of a time speculating on property are worthy of £7bn of money we don't have?

You couldn't make this tulip up.

Well the UK owns a lot of banks that have Irish debt it's all interconnected, domino effect, if Ireland go down it could trigger the end of the world as we know it.

[DimPrawn]

Well the UK owns a lot of banks that have Irish debt it's all interconnected, domino effect, if Ireland go down it could trigger the end of the world as we know it.

[Mich the Tester]

As I've said somewhere else, it can't be in Britain's interests to sit back and watch Ireland decline into turd world conditions; some help which can lead to mutual benefits would return both Britain and Ireland a lot more than 7 billion in the future.

[DimPrawn]

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Sorted.

[cailin maith]

UK pledges £7bn to help bail Ireland out of debt crisis - Telegraph

So, let's get this straight. We MUST cut our own public spending becuase of a record breaking deficit. UK citizens must suffer the pain.

But hey, the Irish, who have been having a whale of a time speculating on property are worthy of £7bn of money we don't have?

You couldn't make this tulip up.

a minority of the Irish!

[Mich the Tester]

a minority of the Irish!

As I understood it, the chief 'borrow-and-not-pay-backers' were an old prime minister and a couple of his cronies.

[DimPrawn]

a minority of the Irish!

Household Wealth in Ireland to surpass ?1 trillion in 2008: National Irish Bank says there are more Mercedes per capita in Ireland than in Germany where they are made

Really?

Greedy feckers.

[kandr]

As I've said somewhere else, it can't be in Britain's interests to sit back and watch Ireland decline into turd world conditions; some help which can lead to mutual benefits would return both Britain and Ireland a lot more than 7 billion in the future.

Precisely, think of how the Mafia operate, they do you a favour which really helps you out of a hole, "really helpful chaps" you think. Its an investment really. We bought Ireland for 7 Billion, buy low sell high.

[cailin maith]

As I understood it, the chief 'borrow-and-not-pay-backers' were an old prime minister and a couple of his cronies.

Yep.

Household Wealth in Ireland to surpass ?1 trillion in 2008: National Irish Bank says there are more Mercedes per capita in Ireland than in Germany where they are made

Really?

Greedy feckers.