[Mancie]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Is that so, and what pray constitutes 'natural disasters and so on...', it strikes me that, if past behaviour is any indication of furture trends, your socialist comrades in Brussels and Frankfurt can and will make it mean anything that suits them. Other rescue funds exist only as notional funds at the moment, until one of the PIIGS decides they cannot do without further subsidy and then the UK will have to fork out it's share whether we approve or not. Your mates, Brown, Darling, Blair and Mandelson have well and truly shafted the lot of us.

There's another point... the actual article which involes emergency financial aid was signed by.. John major in the Maastricht treaty...