{"id":445,"date":"2011-12-17T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-12-17T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:50:52","slug":"france-blames-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/france-blames-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"France Blames UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to avoid national disgrace and humiliation, France is pointing all over the world at anyone who owes anything to anyone else, and telling the credit reference agencies about to reduce France to the status of a Greece, &#8216;look at them who can&#8217;t afford to heat their home this xmas&#8217; or &#8216;see, they had to pawn their Sunday clothes&#8217; &#8211; aren&#8217;t we more deserving than them? In this way they hope to blind us all to the brute fact that they are pathetic and bankrupt and have nothing to sell to anyone but mouldy cheese and expensive rancid wine.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the gnomes of London are to blame. British bankers are taking their money out of French banks and selling all their French government bonds. Why don&#8217;t they convict all British bankers in absentia of economic crimes and apply to have them extradited under European law?<\/p>\n<p>Massive advantage in the UK of this. Those bloody bankers who almost bankrupted Britain would be assisting France into bankruptcy by taking their 2 hour lunches and expensive bubbly courtesy of the French prison system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to avoid national disgrace and humiliation, France is pointing all over the world at anyone who owes anything to anyone else, and telling the credit reference agencies about to reduce France to the status of a Greece, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/france-blames-uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-7b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2010\/10\/competition-for-bankers\/","url_meta":{"origin":445,"position":0},"title":"Competition for Bankers","author":"taxicle","date":"October 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We in this country are just not grateful enough to all the bankers who stole, lost or burnt all our money. 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