Greece should Quit the Euro and join the £ United Kingdom

[Bertramdriver]

Madness? Perhaps not. In size and cost to the exchequer it would be no worse than a pampered Scotland, an incompetently managed Wales and Northern Ireland. Once UK got access to the Greek public sector Thatcheresqe policies could be employed to knock them into shape and HMRC could retrain unemployed special services soldiers as tax collectors. There would be massive investment potential in solar power farms, exotic fruit and veg farming, smarter tourism management etc etc. We would probably sweep up Cyprus in the process. That would put a spoke in the EU/ German economic imperialism which is now hitting Greece and the other weaker states in Europe.
And remember our next king is half Greek.

 

[rivonia]

The above is obvious a JOKE. No one can tell the Greeks what and how to do anything. Thats possibly one of the reasons we love being in the Greece.

peter

 

[vyv_cox]

And remember our next king is half Greek.

Philip is no more Greek than I am. The Greek royal family is fundamentally Danish/German, imposed upon the country by Britain, France and Russia in the mid-1800s. They were kicked out but then reinstated in 1935, which was probably the first time Philip ever went there.

 

[Gwylan]

Like your thinking!

Keep working on those ideas. Call me in a year or two

 

[Gwylan]

Philip is no more Greek than I am. The Greek royal family is fundamentally Danish/German, imposed upon the country by Britain, France and Russia in the mid-1800s. They were kicked out but then reinstated in 1935, which was probably the first time Philip ever went there.

European Royal families are just the ultimate in organised crime families

 

[nickf]

Philip is no more Greek than I am. The Greek royal family is fundamentally Danish/German, imposed upon the country by Britain, France and Russia in the mid-1800s. They were kicked out but then reinstated in 1935, which was probably the first time Philip ever went there.

I thought he was born in Corfu?

 

[Borden]

Philip is no more Greek than I am. The Greek royal family is fundamentally Danish/German, imposed upon the country by Britain, France and Russia in the mid-1800s. They were kicked out but then reinstated in 1935, which was probably the first time Philip ever went there.

Kalimera Bertramdriver which part of Greece were you born in? perhaps Corfu as was Prince Philip on 10th June 1921.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/thecurrentroyalfamily/thedukeofedinburgh/thedukeofedinburgh.aspx

I'm becoming a tad fed up with folks who regard anyone who isn't British as some form of sub species.

We have always found the Greeks to be a very proud and cultured people and they have every right to be so. They had developed an advanced civilisation between the 8th and 6 centuries BC which the Romans eventually managed to emulate some hundreds of years later. Meanwhile we (the Brits) were evolving from the Bronze age to the Iron age and waiting to be conquered by the Romans who (having learned from the Greeks) brought some form of civilisation to the disparate tribes of the British isles.

Let's be a little less jingoistic and a little more open minded please.

 

[Koeketiene]

I thought he was born in Corfu?

I was born in the Congo - that does not make me Congolese

Anyway, does this thread not belong in The Bilge (Lounge)?

 

[vyv_cox]

I thought he was born in Corfu?

Yes, you are correct. Soon kicked out though.

 

[Steve C Cronin]

Philip is no more Greek than I am. The Greek royal family is fundamentally Danish/German, imposed upon the country by Britain, France and Russia in the mid-1800s. They were kicked out but then reinstated in 1935, which was probably the first time Philip ever went there.

Yes he is. He was born on Corfu in the Greek royal family's summer home, "Mon Repos". He is (or was) therefore Greek. Like my situation, where my father was born in Ireland (but when it was part of the UK which complicates matters a bit!) but I was born here, so I am British.

 

[Steve C Cronin]

I was born in the Congo - that does not make me Congolese

Anyway, does this thread not belong in The Bilge (Lounge)?

"Yes" and "yes".

 

[Seren]

Obviously meant as a JOKE as mentioned previously. Even more of a joke is that Thatcheresque policies in selling off utilities(crown jewels) would be better for the Greek economy. Aren't ours now owned by Germany and France and the main reason for the raging Energy debate and the need to ask China to build us a nuclear power station?

Madness? Perhaps not. In size and cost to the exchequer it would be no worse than a pampered Scotland, an incompetently managed Wales and Northern Ireland. Once UK got access to the Greek public sector Thatcheresqe policies could be employed to knock them into shape and HMRC could retrain unemployed special services soldiers as tax collectors. There would be massive investment potential in solar power farms, exotic fruit and veg farming, smarter tourism management etc etc. We would probably sweep up Cyprus in the process. That would put a spoke in the EU/ German economic imperialism which is now hitting Greece and the other weaker states in Europe.
And remember our next king is half Greek.

 

[vyv_cox]

Yes he is. He was born on Corfu in the Greek royal family's summer home, "Mon Repos". He is (or was) therefore Greek. Like my situation, where my father was born in Ireland (but when it was part of the UK which complicates matters a bit!) but I was born here, so I am British.

Cliff Richard and Spike Milligan were both born in India but I have never seen it suggested that either were Indian.

 

[TimBennet]

Cliff Richard and Spike Milligan were both born in India but I have never seen it suggested that either were Indian.

Spike Milligan was UN Stateless Person until Ireland offered him a passport quite recently. Because his father was also born in India with the British Indian Army, he lost his right to a UK passport. Children of members of a colonial occupying army are understandibly ineligible for an Indian passport. Hence stateless.

 

[Glyka]

SWMBO was born in England (before 1983) and therefore is a British Citizen and holds a British passport. So does her (our) son.
That doesn't make her British though. Believe me.

 

[Gordonmc]

Spike Milligan was UN Stateless Person until Ireland offered him a passport quite recently. Because his father was also born in India with the British Indian Army, he lost his right to a UK passport. Children of members of a colonial occupying army are understandibly ineligible for an Indian passport. Hence stateless.

An old friend retired to India where he was born.
He has a British passport - he is ex-Royal Navy; he has a US passport - ditto US Navy; he has a Portugese passport - born in the Portugese colony of Goa.
But no Indian passport.
He is Indian but is not an Indian citizen.
Work that one out.

 

[Mudisox]

I was born in Westminster but my passport doesn't say I'm a politician thank goodness.

 

[catmandoo]

I wa s born in Scotland but people call my country England .

eg quote " when you go back to England " or Which part of England is Scotland .

I have an identity crisis

 

[Bertramdriver]

Don't worry the salmon will cure that.....terminally

 

[prv]

Yes he is. He was born on Corfu in the Greek royal family's summer home, "Mon Repos".

Two of my grandparents were born in India, that doesn't make them Indian (or me half-Indian). My dad was born in Wales but that doesn't make him Welsh.

Pete