Which is how the EU functions. Low on Democracy, high on threats and blackmail. In an excellent article in the Guardian today, Seamus Milne describes perfectly how the EU functions and why. The why is quite simply that the European Union has turned into a Soviet Union except that the ideology forced on the people is not a Marxist ideology but a Neo Liberal “shock and awe” ideology.

This is not new. The EU has been functioning under this dark dogma for a long time. What is relatively new is that Germany’s right wing government has decided to take over the whole show and ram it forcibly down our throats in a way only Germany, it appears, has the know how to do.

In this article Seamus Milne points out that both Greece and Ireland are being subjected to particularly hysterical threats because both countries are due to exercise their democratic rights and actually vote, much to the EU directorate’s displeasure. The Irish in a referendum on the already defunct Frau inspired fiscal stability pact, and the Greeks in a rerun of a general election that proved so alarming the first time around.

Already here in Greece the threats are reaching an extraordinary height of hysteria. Even the previous appointed Quisling Prime Minister and former Vice President of the ECB made loud statements about preparations being made to kick Greece out of the Euro… unless you stick to the terms of the program!  as the mantra goes. Or in simple language unless you continue plunging your already shattered economy into even greater and greater recession till there is nothing left.

By the way, Mr Papademos’ statements in the Wall Street Journal caused quite a flutter in the markets. The kind of flutter some wily operators tend to flourish on. Shouldn’t a former Central Banker try to avoid such ‘opportunities’ for speculation rather than create them? Are they so desperate to terrorize and intimidate electors that they don’t even bother to think of the consequences of their remarks?

So far, the only person to have spoken sensibly is Christine Lagarde of the IMF. She does not say, you must ruin your economy otherwise…! (Otherwise what? one can’t help asking). She says you must really fix you taxation system and carry out the structural reforms of your state machinery. Both of which are entirely true. And if all the idiots stopped threatening us with summary exit from the Euro, but promised help, perhaps, in dealing with these problems, then the electoral result would have greater chances of going their way than it does now.

But again. We have here another example of Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland logic. The kind of logic Mr Papademos  also expresses with great zest. If you don’t stick to the plan imposed on you which will inevitably end up in the complete destruction of your economy and result in  hunger and death, we will throw you summarily out of the Euro, cut off all your funding and the result will be hunger and death! How come they don’t even realise that they are not giving us any choice?