For all intensive purposes we are about to default on our mortgage, lost our job and the bank have handed us a high interest credit card to solve the problem, crazy stuff, I agree!

Ya that’s it alright Jean, sorry, Gary. Germany dictates everything that happens in every other euro state, interest rates, bailouts etc etc. Anyone who doesn’t see that quite frankly is an idiot. If I were a german citizen I would be aggrieved at bailing out other countries too, but just 2 points. 1. I would recognise as a german citizen that my banks had grown off the back of loaning to bubbles in other countries. That’s not the citizens fault in Ireland, that’s my banks fault for being imprudent. 2. I, mr german citizen, am not bailing out anyone more than myself, and, at a healthy profit. If Ireland goes wallop goodbye to the german bureaucratic single currency dream. I want it more than the Irish do, after all it benefits me alot more and it gives ten times more of a shite about me too.

Burden share? Are you for real? They lend to us, they get back with sugar on top.

Let’s not kid ourselves here. The only one with any burden is us. Meanwhile the french and germans and others get a free bank bail out with mine, and your, hard earned cash.

Gary, id be delighted if what you say is true and a new deal emerges with some real FAULT sharing. Because that is what should happen. It wasnt a localised Irish problem, the continental banks got fat on the juicy Irish property market. Even the Germans make imprudent decisions!

I’d love to trust you, but alas, past experience shows the needs of the citizen of this country come bottom of the pile.