(26 Jan 2015, 10:21 am)Adam Seems the mighty homeland of the great-great grandmother are wanting change.

The reason why the economy collapsed in Greece was simply because they couldn't grasp the concept of the Euro. Their Drachma system was equivalent of our pence, so for example if something was worth £1.00, the Greeks would say 100 Drachma. 

Anyway, when the Euro came in, the Greeks didn't understand it very well, so were just rounding prices up to the nearest Euro Cent. So, if say beforehand something cost 160 Drachma, it would have been rounded up to €2 (or 200 Drachma), of course leading to everything being more expensive, meaning people couldn't afford it and so on.

I see Alexis Tsipras, the party leader, is considering returning to the Drachma system. As you say, there are interesting times ahead.

(26 Jan 2015, 10:50 am)Adam A whole smorgasbord of reasons then.

Some of the laws are a bit bonkers like

(30 Jan 2015, 9:41 am)Andreos1 Following on from earlier comments, I have been looking at the Green party as an alternative to cast my vote.
Whilst I am unsure as to who will be standing in my constituency, the Tories and UKIP ain't getting my vote. Neither will the BNP or anything else of that ilk.
The Lib Dems had a chance to show they had something behind them, failing miserably and Labour, well as I have said before - aren't Labour.

I took a look a the Green Party. Some of their manifesto is interesting, some I agree with, some I don't.
I think this article (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/28/forget-greens-grow-your-own-leftwing-party-election) from a few days ago, sums their current situation up.
It also has similar thoughts to one I suggest a while back, about the need for a left wing party, to emerge and do for the left, what UKIP has done for the other side - in bringing issues, concerns etc to the wider public conscience.

(30 Jan 2015, 10:29 am)MrFozz Not sure how seriously I should take a tabloid...But The Greens have said Brits wanting to join IS and Al-Qaeda will be legalised...

Theres hope for the FPF can become fully legit...

Seriously, if true, I think that is quite disturbing

They will also abolish the monarchy and move the queen into a council house...Sure Gentoo could provide the old girl a nice little pad in Pennywell

Green Party policy states 'it should not be a crime simply to belong to an organisation or have sympathy with its aims, though it should be a crime to aid and abet criminal acts or deliberately fund such acts'.
On BBC1's Sunday Politics Miss Bennett was challenged about the policy and whether that would make it legal for people living in Britain to join brutal terrorist groups such as ISIS.
She said: 'This is a part of our policy that I think dates back to the age of the ANC and apartheid South Africa.'
Pressed on whether that meant it would be allowed to be a member of Al Qaeda or IS, she said: 'Exactly. What we want to do is make sure we are not punishing people for what they think or what they believe.
'Obviously actions of inciting violence, supporting violence, those are absolutely unacceptable, illegal and should be pursued to the full extent of the law.'
She added: 'What we are talking about is a principle that you shouldn't be punished for what you think. And we need to balance, we do not protect freedom by destroying it.'

(30 Jan 2015, 11:15 am)Andreos1 Aye, think you need to look into what a tabloid publishes in a little bit more detail.

That's from the Daily Mail. The headline gives a totally different impression, when you read the full article...

(30 Jan 2015, 11:25 am)MrFozz It was The Mirror I read it in...I would not piss on the Daily Fail if it was on fire

So is Natalie Bennett saying it will be ok to believe in IS/Al-Qaeda ideals, as long as that is all you do, just believe in it, but if you resort to violence of any kind that is unacceptable

(30 Jan 2015, 12:48 pm)MrFozz I will be voting for Standing at the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid or White, Rat Catching And Safe Sewage Residents Party

(30 Jan 2015, 6:27 pm)MurdnunoC Do they have manifestos?

(31 Jan 2015, 11:26 am)Andreos1 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/up-30-teachers-jobs-go-8552404

Teaching staff to be made redundant from two Gateshead schools.
Not exactly a glowing endorsement of the Academy system.

(31 Jan 2015, 12:14 pm)MrFozz How does the Academy and Free School System actually work...Is it like Private Education, smaller classes and higher standard of learning???

The way it has gone for the Condom Gov't makes Michael Gove look like a complete bell end

(07 Feb 2015, 8:04 pm)aureolin Time to Modernise Politics and Reform Flawed Voting System
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mark-serwotka/2015-general-election-electoral-reform_b_6620062.html

(08 Feb 2015, 9:42 am)MurdnunoC I'm very much for electoral reform and favour a PR-type system in which two votes are cast: one for candidate of choice; the other for party of choice. Cabinets/Shadow Cabinets can be made up from those not directly elected as 'candidate of choice'. Candidates can then represent their constituents without the added burden of a ministerial position. After all, how can the Prime Minister truly represent the constituents of Witney (or in the past, Sedgefield) when there are matters of international importance to attend?