@swerve
“Those individuals who are good at predictions are in business for themselves, or are highly paid (& with huge bonuses) star traders for big firms, not throwing away the gains they could make by telling everyone else about them.”

The Eurosceptics all saw the Euro crisis coming, doesn’t mean they would be rich or be paid big bonuses. There’s more money to be made gambling on the highs leading up to the Eurozone crisis than predicting it and taking a conservative and sensible approach!

@paul178
I believe some groups have the new year at a different times in the year, how very un-PC of you! 😀 😉

@Lincoln 7

By “a few pints” you must surely mean a few pints of Absinthe?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Don’t forget to drink lots in the New Year and at Christmas

Also don’t drink and drive

@waco

Otherwise known as

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_178228

The key word is ARMED.
There will be plenty of international security experts there.
And I’d bet some of them will be armed…just not publicly.

Official statements explicitly state otherwise. The Home Office have been open about whether they are authorising foreign bodyguards to carry firearms, e.g Bush at the G8 summit, so why would they now choose to lie publicly and do something different? Foreign heads of state might be allowed a small number of armed bodyguards but they wouldn’t be policing and would be escorted by actual police, in any case they tend to move the head of state away from danger rather than arrest people or engage in gunfights.

Their governments can, and it seems will, be sending liason officers, and this should definitely be welcomed. Assistance with translation should also be welcomed. However carrying out of policing duties should be limited to British police officers only. This is especially true with regards to people carrying weapons of any description, particularly firearms. The last thing we need is lots of people walking around with pistols and tasers in suits, and all being used to their own domestic rules of use and laws to enforce.

@Deano

It’s mostly FBI that the US wanted to send.

@Creaking Door

Or I’ll just post it here since it’s general discussion 😉

I do not have any more accurate figures but how do we suddenly make these all 0.5%…..the new EU target! :confused:

That’s because you only know half of the picture.

Yea, it’s terrible how people dare to have a different opinion to you 😮