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Significant support to Argentina from British personalities against vulture funds
A large cross-party group of British parliamentarians, renowned economists, intellectuals, journalists, public opinion leaders, trade unionists and activists added their names to a statement of solidarity with Argentina against vulture funds, which they handed on to the Embassy of Argentina in London. Read full article
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Jun 27th, 2014 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Left wing socialists, communists and academics.
Aside from one or two of the usual suspects, no one and I mean no one in the UK has ever heard of any of these people.
Describing them as UK personalities, is playing loose with the truth.
No surprises there then!
Vulture funds making a profit is a consequence but it is not the issue.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't believe this intervention by the loony left is particularly helpful to Argentina or any other financially troubled states.
'Such funds buy up devalued debt at rock-bottom prices from the original creditors and then pursue repayment'
Jun 27th, 2014 - 08:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ermmm... why were they at rock bottom prices in the first place?
What term would they use for the price Argentina offered the creditors, the funds offered more money than Argentina ..'tectonic plate bottom, lithosphere bottom'
MATT WILGRESS (Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and North London Stop the War Coalition)
Jun 27th, 2014 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0LOL
GERONIMO ENRIQUE RAUCH (Actor-Singer)
Bahahahaha
JULIAN ASSANGE (Publisher of WIKILEAKS) - JOSEPH FARRELL (Ambassador of WIKILEAKS)
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
1 reality check (#)
Jun 27th, 2014 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly what you said,
all the usual loony lefties and academics who know nothing of the real world.
I bet none of these earn less than £60k to £70k per year plus all their “jollies”.
Plus an awful lot have rather non-British sounding names, plus some whose titles seem to suggest they represent Argentina.
For the record I recognized 3 of the MP/MSP's and 2 others.
In fact for future posters to this article, a “no-prize” for who recognizes the most names on the list.
May I start the bidding with 5 names.
Can anyone else do better?
What is all the fuss about the morality of the hedge funds.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am willing to bet, they paid more money for the defaulted bonds than was offered by Argentina.
Who would you sell to?
To whoever would pay you the most obviously.
The real victims here are the bond holders the Argentines defrauded in the first place!!!
I got 3, 4 if it is MICHAEL BURKE the news reader ;-)
Jun 27th, 2014 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0I recognised 5.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I discounted Alan Freeman, what does a DJ know about economics anyway?
That's a good list to keep around for the future purge.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why do these idiots think cementing the rule of law is a bad thing?
Silly Marxists don't know how the world works.
Do they want everyone to live like the masses in Venezuela? Street fighting over day old bread?
rat a tat tat
I had to smile at the sheer nonsense of the EDM that they put their names to.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just reverse their role and guess who would be screaming the loudest for payment from The Dark Country.
What a bunch of plonkers.
“British personalities against vulture funds”? I am pretty well connected in the business world and have NEVER heard of most of these so-called personalities. I have heard of Jeremy Corbin and George Galloway - both of whom are totally discredited politicians of the extreme left who have achieved very little in their public life. The rest seem to be academicians of junior grade such as Tariq Ali or journalists such as Richard Gott who should know better.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I were a Justice of the Supreme Court of the US I would not bother a fig about these rascals. Of course, they are entitled to their opinion BUT……………..!
I note that the G77 support Argentina - that's 170 of the world's 203 nations - all the poor nations of the world - that prefer to NOT pay back money they owe.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The 'British' personalities' - “Come On Down!” - are the usual supporters of the Bolivarian-Way-Of-Life.
These aggregations of the partisan appear frequently in The Times 'Letters Page' (England has a freedom of speech arrangement that allows most people to say most things - unless the government says no).
In this instance there seems little reason not to allow the 'supporters' to voice their point of view. After all, there is no immediate need for the UK to default on their own debts.
Joseph Farrell, ambassador for Wikileaks? Never heard of that country.Probably never attend UN sessions because of incontinence problems perhaps
Jun 27th, 2014 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tony Black no 12. Bus Driver.
Jun 27th, 2014 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0John Smith no 9. Factory hand.
Fred Murray no 27. Interior decorator.
Peter Baker no 1. Refuse Technician.
Alfred Middlesex no 5. Pig sexer.
William Partridge no 30. Aux pig sexer.
Jason Davis. No 10. Chef.
Just some of the people who have signed a letter of support hanging in our corner shop. On Monday we shall be posting it to the Republics Embassy in London.
I expect it will be just has helpful as the one above and of course! also expect them to publish it in the International media.
@14 Bus driver? A sydomyn for Nicolas Maduro?
Jun 27th, 2014 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Leftist politicians, professors, and union leaders. Don't they not realize that those nasssty “vulture funds” actually fill a function in the global market?
Jun 27th, 2014 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's up with you lot?
Jun 28th, 2014 - 11:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm generally left-wing but neutral overall. I've watched the right-wingers sneer and sneer on so many issues that their pure arrogance is starting to get on my wick.
Pure arrogance carries no friends.
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PS: Thank you South America for showing football as it should be played, in the best World Cup I've ever had the pleasure of watching.
@ 17 Moriety
Jun 29th, 2014 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MORIETY? you sure it's not MORIARTY?
If so, chuck yourself over the falls on your own, don't wait for Sherlock.
@18 Chris,
Jul 01st, 2014 - 02:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0I never read the books mate, seen lots of the films.
The ring-wingers have been, over the past 1-2 years getting very, very arrogant (Just read the on-line sections of the Telegraph, Mail and Independent.)
These hidden people never say WHAT they think is right or wrong about Politics but instead only slag off any of those who are left. THAT is very boring. It educates nobody and turns off the youngsters from being interested in Politics, and that is definitely not in the interests of the UK, or ant democracy.
The Right seem to be going a bit wobbly lately and need to grow up a tad: If you believe in your viewpoint, say why and explain WHY you feel others are wrong, otherwise it's an utter waste of readers time.
As someone who is generally politically neutral these days you lot are starting to piss me off with this bizarre arrogant attitude that neither informs or educates.
I think you mean 'centre' and not “politically neutral”.
Jul 01st, 2014 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0But if you consider posts and comments by anonymous people on the internet as indicative of political dialogue then I would think you are politically naïve.
@20 Anglotino,
Jul 01st, 2014 - 04:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nope mate, I meant exactly what I said. I like some of the current UK right wing Tory government policies, and I liked some of the previous Centre-Right Labour party policies.
The 3 UK newspapers mentioned in my post above are 3 of the 5 most important in the UK (The Times (The Grandad of all our newspapers) and the Guardian being the other two). I've noticed Left wingers coming under attack especially in the Independent lately, annoying and pointless, as the flooders block out the important comments some posters say about the article.
A single example: Electrical generation: The flooders spammed the article about how “lefties” love wind turbines that actually almost nobody likes.
Result: No honest debate, no discussion about Sea turbines or the Sahara as an alternative to these ugly and relatively useless things (from an electrical generation point of view). Apparently you are a “leftie” if you like them, end of debate, before it ever even began.........Great education for our youngsters, not.
Politically naive, nope, fed up with stupid brain dead politicians and members of the public more like.
So Moriety, after realising what a waste of time most comment sections are on the internet, you decided to come comment on some random one bemoaning the lack of good debate by actually not even talking about the article.
Jul 01st, 2014 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0I surely hope you don't think of yourself as any better than them now.
You have a choice to not read the comments. Or ignore them.
@22 Anlotino
Jul 01st, 2014 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0An almost fair point: Merco helps me keep an eye on what the political nutters in Argentina are doing, as I have a single Son he will never be fodder for them.
First time I've looked at Merco Press in a year, still a great newspaper: They need to link with some of the European papers to give us an alternative perspective, and I'm a tad saddened they haven't already.
Unlike my UK newspapers they shockingly just seem to report actual factual news, without bias......A lesson for my British newspapers........nope, they wont listen and have long forgotten what a newspaper actually is, or should be, or once was.
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