Going to the IMF "like a trip to the spa"

Going to the IMF "like a trip to the spa"

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chris_w

Original Poster:

2,565 posts

265 months

Friday 24th April 2009
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I'm speechless:

Stephen Timms said:
Previously a country would only go if they were in a very bad state. It was a bit like going to accident and emergency to get urgent help.

This new facility will not be like that. It is a bit more like getting wellbeing care or even like going to a spa to recuperate.
Latest, and most contemptible piece of spin yet:

Dogwatch

6,263 posts

228 months

Friday 24th April 2009
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But that was three weeks ago. The Opinion column in today's Telegraph:

'The alarming truth is that the scale of our indebtedness is now so immense that the IMF would be hard-pressed to offer sufficient help.'

So going there might be more like a cold shower than a spa bath.

grumbledoak

31,761 posts

239 months

Friday 24th April 2009
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The Telegraph isn't what it was. Did you see their hatchet-job on 'Guido Fawkes'?

Best ignored, really.


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