for your further amusement:

London bond trader creates JustGiving page to help Greece ... £398 down, £99,999,602 to go:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...602-to-go.html

Good news at last for Greece. The heavily indebted country has found a saviour in the unlikely form London bond trader Jim Croft.


By Jonathan Russell
Published: 4:08PM BST 09 Apr 2010

The City worker has set up a charity appeal on donations website justgiving.com to raise £100m to bail the country out.

“Greece is in a deep financial crisis,” he explains on the site. “Donating here will go along way to helping these poor people who have lived beyond their means for the last 10 years and are now struggling to pay their bills."

“Please think of them as they avoid their taxes and then blame evil speculators rather than face up to the fact that lying about their national statistics was probably more of a factor."

"Please donate in pounds as all euro payments will soon be subject to a 50pc haircut.”

So far £398 has been raised.

Donations include £15 from someone calling themselves Angela Merkel with the touching comment “Greek swine”.

A certain Anthony Chisnall has promised £10 but only if they stop smashing all their crockery. Mr Turkey said he would donate £10 in return for an island.

Even the British Museum is reported on the site to have stumped up a tenner along with the message: “Have you lost your marbles.”

“I set it up as a bit of a giggle on a quiet Friday morning but then people started donating money, which is great," Mr Croft told Reuters. “It all goes to charity (Oxfam) in the end, so that's good.”

There is apparently no stipulation on donors giving their real names.


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