Well, that’s what the German newspaper Handesblat says. Quite extraordinary. The most mendacious, deceitful, spineless, unintelligent, destructive Prime Minister there ever was, man of the year?
A politician who railed against the memorandum imposed austerity, who repeatedly warned of the dangers, who repeatedly said it was the wrong medicine and that it would only lead to recession and unemployment, only to do a complete about turn the very moment he was vindicated!
Things turned out exactly as he had warned. Yet that was the very moment he chose to change course completely and adopt these very policies he had so derided, with a vengeance. Man of the year! And to add insult to injury when asked in Berlin in a press conference, how can he explain this complete change, he answered “Me Culpa.”
He had been sinning when he had been warning of the disaster to come through following these dastardly policies. But disaster did come. He had been right. Why did he suddenly grovel in front of Merkel to such a sickening extent?
That last bit does go some way to explaining why a German newspaper decided to dub him man of the year. The newspaper said he was the man who realised what was good for his country and set about doing it! Well now, a little detail here. Not what was good for his country but what was considered good for the German Chancellor. Which is hardly the same thing.
Still, the way it was put is telling.
Look here Tony Baby (says the new iron chancellor) you better shut up and do what you’re told, if you know what’s good for you!
And courageous gentleman that he is, he flopped, and grovelled and cowered.
Still it does explain why Handesblat put it like that. “He knew what was good for his country.” No… not his country, whose economy is already in free fall and set to collapse under Samaras’ even more horrendous and totally inhuman policies. Well, the paper could hardly have put it the way it was really said! Nor could it have commended him for doing something for “his own good” when that is tantamount to the destruction of his country.
Still, we did get the gist of it.
Bravo Tony! Congratulations! You made it to teacher’s pet after all.