The man is either delusional, demented, psychotic or dare I say it? Blind. Blind to what is before his very eyes. Most probably he is just another of these narcissists (like Venizelos) who gravitate towards politics in order to become Prime Minister and admire themselves posturing in the mirror.
Other than that, in the light of Juncker’s visit to Athens today and Samaras’ Charge of the Light Brigade in Berlin and Paris later this week, I have just one thing to say. And that is to quote (and endorse) the comment made by:
Elisabeth Afseth of Investec: “It would be refreshingly honest if Jean Claude Juncker emerged from meetings holding his head and saying, ‘I don’t know how we are going to sort this mess out.’ But it is more likely that we get supporting comments about ‘great efforts made, difficult economic conditions’ though with a warning more need to be done.”
I think she is exactly right. The so called hard liners, Dutch, Germans and others insist. No slack to be cut unless Greece complies fully with her MoU commitments. Which is a nonsense, because if she has managed (in some magical way) to comply that means she won’t need any more time to do it in. So that is the safest way for the so called hard liners to say no and sound self righteous about it.
And it is an easy way out because there is no way these terms can be met, regardless of Samaras’ idiotic idea to ask for an extension. Extension to do what? Carry out the ‘reforms’? That is tantamount to saying first I will completely destroy the Greek economy by ensuring recession continues on its rapid downward course and of course, that unemployment goes up to over 30% at least and then…
Then what bozo? Do you think you will even be in Greece by then any more, let alone Prime Minister?
Now the band of “moderates” Juncker among them. They have already started and will ratchet up the, there has been progress, Samaras is trying, the primary deficit has been lessened (ha, ha to that one) and other such conciliatory noises, merely in order to keep kicking the can down the road under the demented illusion that the Euro (and their positions and prestige) can be kept going under such Nonsense Economics conditions.
Perhaps it is Samaras who should simply tell the Greek people and the world the truth. This mess is impossible to fix under the terms being imposed. We did agree to them, Venizelos and I, signed up to them and pledged to carry them out. But there is no way any of this can happen with a recession racing downwards at an exponential rate and policies designed to exacerbate the recession and ruin the economy.
The only thing I can do for my country at this stage is resign and leave the negotiations for the default and Grexit in hands far more capable than my own.
But of course he won’t do that either, will he?
When did a narcissist ever do the right thing? Still less take the blame for his own follies and mistakes.