In the elections held on Sunday, the Greeks shrieked out in anguish, “Enough is enough! We simply cannot take this carnage any more!” The result was a sea change in the political party system that, combined with a sneakily unfair electoral law that gives an extra 50 out of the 300 seats in Parliament to the first party, made it impossible to form a government.
Nevertheless, the vote was clearly a demand that the economic straight jacket strangling the Greek economy to death should be removed. Since Monday there have been negotiations and posturing in an attempt to patch a government together, something that looks rather unlikely to happen. So the EU have got cross with us again.
How dare these sub human lazy slobs question our wisdom! How dare they! And on with the threats and terrorization. If you don’t comply with the programme completely (the one leading to a 5th year of recession, unemployment over 20% and growing, in short economic annihilation) then we shall cut off funds! You will starve, you will freeze and be turned into a sub Saharan failed state! If you don’t do as you are told!
Now, who exactly are they threatening this way? Since we don’t have a government, the aim is obviously to terrorize the people into voting as the EU wants them to in the rerun elections that seem likely. OR ELSE! Remember the EU idea of Democracy? We decide and you endorse! If you don’t we’ll keep you voting again and again till we grind down your resistance and you vote as you are told to. (Sort of Ceausescu Romanian elections.)
But just what is this terrifying OR ELSE we are being threatened with again? Quite simply, if you don’t do as you are told, you’ll be thrown out of the Euro! Now, it is well known that over 75% of the people of Greece, are in favour of the Euro. But as one wise man said on the radio this morning: I am in favour of my house and will do anything to keep it. However, when an earthquake strikes (and they do here in Greece) and everything is crashing down over my head, do I stay in my house or run for my life?
Like the gold standard, the Euro “at any cost” may no longer be an option. Particularly the way the EU functions now it has been hijacked by the German right.