As if nothing at all has happened, as if the Greek citizens had not voted once but twice against austerity, yesterday’s vote of confidence in the “new” (okay recycled) Greek government has just sealed the final death warrant on the Greek Economy. And Greek social cohesion of course.

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras campaigned on a promise of renegotiating the Memorandum that has suffocated and ruined the Greek Economy. He promised extra unemployment benefits, a restoration of cuts for the really hard hit pensioners whose pensions have been slashed to well below subsistence levels and in any case no further cuts to pensions, wages and salaries.

Not to mention a really dirty smear campaign against the left wing SYRIZA party and its leader, accusing them of wanting to take Greece out of the Euro and fling us back to 1960 conditions and other such terrorizing threats.

And what did we hear in Parliament? Well none of the above promises. No. Indeed. Quite the contrary. The new Minister of Finances ruled out every possibility of renegotiation. We have been very bad boys and we cannot ask for any changes until we steer our Economic policy firmly back onto the recession inducing Memorandum course. Only then will we be able to perhaps renegotiate a few little details.

So what we have to do now is undertake a great program of privatization from the water boards, to electricity, to transport, in fact to anything we can sell off. Oh, and of course we must slash wages even further down and sack 150,000 people from the public sector, raise taxes on property even more, because that is what the Greek governments have signed up to. In blood. And only then might we try to mutter a few suggestions as to how to alleviate the pressure.

He is of course perfectly right. Papandreou, Papademos, Venizelos and our ‘new’ recycled PM Samaras all signed up to every last vicious impossible term. Without a murmur.

However, we all know very well that none of this is ever going to work. Ok, yes, they will slash wages and salaries more and they will raise taxes more. However, Greeks have already reached breaking point. In an economy in free fall with an annual rate of recession at around 7%, and unemployment rising exponentially, just where in hell or otherwise are there going to be any resources to pay proper taxes let alone the exorbitant ones planned?

As to the big bang plan of privatizations across the board, it would be funny if things were not so tragic. Now, the railways, at first glance it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. Until you look at the details. They plan a privatization just like Thatcher’s privatization of British Rail which failed utterly. That is keeping the actual rail track network in public hands and selling off the train services. So those running the train services and profiting from them have no responsibility nor incentive to keep the tracks in order. And we all know how that ended up in Britain.

But, okay. That is just a minor detail you may say. But what about the whole idea of these mass privatizations being implemented now? For all Samaras’ threats of if you vote SYRIZA you are voting Greece out of the Euro, he hasn’t stopped this threat in any way. In fact, he is brining this eventuality even closer than before. So, who in hell or elsewhere will even show any interest in buying up any of the trash on sale here in Greece at all?

Trash, not in potential or capabilities, but in the current state of Euroland and Greece’s Economy which looks more like a bomb site in London in the late forties than anything else, the items on sale have an incredibly low value. That could be an incentive? Possibly. Only there would be no point in effecting the sales if you are going to get next to nothing in return. But on the other hand, with all the uncertainty over Greece leaving the Euro, not to mention the actual Euro breaking up, who in their right mind will want to buy anything in Greece right now? Which means that those who may express interest may well be doing so for all the wrong reasons.

And last but not least, whoever in their right mind believes that any of these privatizations will go through in an orderly manner? Workers who have had their wages and unemployment benefits slashed to smithereens, who have had the rights generations of workers fought for and paid for in blood, canceled for the benefit of employers, are not really likely to just shrug and say, ‘oh well, never mind, c’est la vie.’

We’re in for strikes and riots and unrest. And the Greek people have been left with no incentive to try and help out the government in its efforts. For two reasons. Firstly because it has no reason to trust anyone in the current government since not only have they all persistently lied to and deceived the electorate, but also they keep covering up all the sleaze and corruption they are directly responsible for.

And the second reason, because we are being asked, no not asked, forced to follow a plan drawn up and imposed by The Frau’s Germany that has led to the complete destruction of the Greek Economy and now promises to grind it to a pulp. Greece will look worse than a third world underdeveloped country with slave labour, no rights for anyone, fat profits to be siphoned off colonial style abroad and no hope left for the Greek people. Whose private property, furthermore, will have been confiscated through the excessive tax system.

Does anyone either in Greece or in Brussels or even Berlin really believe all this is going to work nicely and smoothly without any bloodshed? I don’t think so.

But then what do any of them care if there is bloodshed and turmoil in Greece, provided Greece abides by the German set rules! That, after all, is the only object of the exercise. You must abide by the rules! And to hell with your economy and to hell with you too for that matter!

It serves us right. It serves us bloody right. We had our chance in the elections to scupper these vicious and fatal plans. But we blew it out of cringing fear.

Fear of something this government will bring to us sooner rather than later anyway.