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| Ann Widdecome on 11:14 - May 19 with 593 views | Bicester_North |
Your fat, sports direct tracksuit wearing, cowardly, domestic abuse loving fans shamed Portsmouth on a national level this week and the whole of football was laughing at how weird and gimpy your club and city are
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| Ann Widdecomb on 13:05 - May 19 with 536 views | Chesham_Saint |
That’s funny Ian, but on the other hand the existence of the €500 note seems to be a clear manifestation of the institutional corruption at the highest levels of the EU. Apart from a criminal, who needs a €500 note FFS? I mean, if you try and spend a £50 note in a shop or bar in the UK people look at you like you’re a drug dealer.
As you’re a committed europhile I was hoping you could bring some clarity to this. | |
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| Ann Widdecome on 13:41 - May 19 with 516 views | kentsouthampton |
To make it easier for Putin to pay his useful idiots like Banks and Farage. | | | |
| Ann Widdecome on 13:41 - May 19 with 514 views | kentsouthampton |
I'm from Cowes you moron. | | | |
| Ann Widdecome on 14:09 - May 19 with 495 views | Bicester_North |
Your kitchen is filthy. | |
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| Ann Widdecomb on 14:53 - May 19 with 469 views | DorsetIan |
The serious answer, if you insist, is that when the Eurozone countries converted to the Euro a number of them already had extremely high denomination notes - e.g. Germany, Austria, Latvia. You can understand how these things go. Transferring from one currency to another was going to be an extraordinarily difficult administrative exercise and the objective would have been to make the transition as seamless as possible, which would have meant converting like for like across the EU.
As I understand it, alive to criminal issues, the 500 Euro notes are no longer being printed (at least not by the EU) albeit that the ones already in circulation remain legal.
If you want to take a wider view, have you tried to open a bank account or anything similar recently? If you have, you’ll know how tight the anti-money laundering regulations are these days. All that is driven by European directives. The UK has, for example, committed to adopting the 5th anti-money laundering directive notwithstanding Brexit. You can check it all out here:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/criminal-justi
I am not sure I am happy being described as a committed Europhile. I can see the issues, i just think they have been completely overblown. And I understand that people are people are fed up with the state of the UK but the idea that everything is the fault of the EU is (I think) just a great big con trick. | |
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| Ann Widdecome on 15:38 - May 19 with 445 views | Occasional_Showers |
Christmas dinner at Cowes must be an occasion us mere mortals can only dream of. | |
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| Ann Widdecomb on 15:56 - May 19 with 433 views | Chesham_Saint |
The europhile comment wasn't meant as an insult.
The 500 euro is still legal tender and any attempt to "be alive" to criminal issues is a bit of a joke, when they're still printing 300 euro notes (two brief cases needed instead of two which is a real hurdle for organised crime...).
As it happens, I have recently opened bank accounts here, Italy and the US. Hardest of all was here, then the US and lastly Italy. The UK authorities seem to take money laundering way more seriously than the Italians that's for sure - but then that's true of almost any European Directive, we apply them rigorously whereas many/most of the rest seem to pick and chose - certainly in there application. In my experience (and its not just apocryphal) day to day corruption in the rest of the EU massively dwarfs what goes on here. | |
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| Ann Widdecome on 16:41 - May 19 with 404 views | gentlekenneth |
FFS Arthur. Why bother changing usernames?! | | | |
| Ann Widdecome on 16:43 - May 19 with 401 views | Occasional_Showers |
Is that an AEG range cooker I spy behind the island? | |
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| Ann Widdecome on 17:20 - May 19 with 361 views | Bicester_North |
Tragic stuff, but funny | |
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| Ann Widdecome on 18:30 - May 19 with 324 views | Happy_Jack |
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| Ann Widdecomb on 23:58 - May 19 with 257 views | DorsetIan |
i know, I didn’t take it as such.
I agree that the UK is a less corrupt country. I was actually commenting to a friend yesterday (when the story broke about the Austrian vice chancellor resigning) that I had heard a long time ago that Austria was extraordinarily bent.
It’s not that surprising though that the citizens of countries which have been through foreign occupation and radical constitutional changes in the last 100 years should have less reverence for the State and the rule of law than we do here. They had to learn to duck and dive to survive whereas we never did.
I agree that 200 euros is still high but somehow now in the same ballpark as £50 or $100. Reading around this a bit, it seems that Germany is the country where not just criminals like to pay big in cash. Didn’t see an explanation for that. Just a cultural quirk I guess. | |
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| Ann Widdecomb on 00:03 - May 20 with 254 views | Chesham_Saint |
I was working with a German legal team and was surprised when they admitted the levels of corruption (even when buying a house everyone’s bent) - nice people though... | |
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