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| One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. |
Most men will be familiar with this playground
scenario. There you were at school minding your own business when the class
creep wanders over.
“Hey you, fuck face. You really fancy yourself, don’t
ya? Yeah, I’m talking to you.”
Wow, Crispin’s a bit optimistic today you think. This
should be fun. Then you hesitate.
Something here is too good to be true. So you take another look over his
shoulder. Sure enough, there they are, weedy Crispin has somehow talked the two
school psychos into teaming up with him to give you a kicking. What a creep!
That’s the image that came to mind when I read how President
of the European Council, Donald Tusk, seeing Greek PM Alexis Tsipras get up to
leave after 14 hours of fruitless negotiations with eurozone leaders said:
“Sorry, but there is no way you are leaving this room.”
Wow, Tusk’s a bit optimistic today. Is the unelected President
of the European Council really threatening the democratically elected Greek PM who
has a double mandate from his people? Not only did he convincingly win the Greek
general elections in January on a platform of “no more austerity” but just last
week he also won a referendum confirming that policy. What a creep!
But before telling the euro weenie Tusk to go to hell,
Tsipras had to take into account the psychos behind him, particularly German
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble whose negotiating position could best be
summed up:
“Nice country you’ve got there, Tsipras. Shame if
something unpleasant happened to it!”
The unpleasant thing was as Tsipras put it himself:
“A disorderly default would not only have led to a
collapse of the banking system and a disappearance of all deposits, but it
would force you to print a currency which would be drastically devalued because
there is no reserve to support it. A pensioner who got €800 would get 800 drachmas
and it would only last him three days and not a month.”
So faced with the choice between a catastrophic bankruptcy
in the next few days or the continuation of the pain of austerity the Greek PM cracked.
He would have done much better to call Tusk’s bluff. Bankruptcy
could not be worse than the continuation of the slow death of Greece where:
• The economy has shrunk by a quarter since 2008.
• Youth unemployment is more than 50%
• After being “saved” from bankruptcy twice since 2010
Greek debt has actually increased from 125% of GNP to around 180% today.
He should have reminded the ex-Polish PM Tusk of the
sufferings of his own country when it was entirely in the power of the Soviet Union. To ask
for some fellow feeling for Greece’s terrible plight.
Perhaps he should have replied to the Pole:
"Show some fucking Solidarity or I’m outta here!"
I think Greek should leave the EU. Pay $0 of their debt. Start over.
ReplyDeleteI agree. They should have done it 5 years ago, but dreams die hard..
ReplyDeletethe people who control the EU would not allow them to leave as it would mean others might do the same such as Portugal. They would threaten Greece with causing Drachma hyper inflation.
ReplyDeleteNot so well known almost everything worth having, excluding the Acropolis , such as all its airports and toll roads where acquired by international companies at a fraction of their worth and the owners want to collect fees in euros.
As for Tsipras a bunch of coffee house commies they have been opening Greece up by stealth to non-EU immigration.
amendment should read Tsipras head of Syriza -coalition of radical left
ReplyDeleteif you check on google - immigration Syriza - so they improve migrant conditions and future migrants read online. So Greece becomes a Trojan horse as the migrants will move onto other parts of Europe once they set foot in the EU