
trade. But you can expect no better from politicians, whatever their hue. It is we the people who suffer the consequences of their stupidity. Cameron is on a hiding to nothing and is probably part of
the scam: sounding good but playing their game and knowing full well that, at least as far as the UK is concerned, especially with all the lefties in the celtic fringe and the EU migrants able to vote with their guided 'yes' vote to stay in the bloody union... People try to complicate things, but generally you can get to the nub of most issues pretty quickly. I) The Greeks aren't prepared to live as their productivity allows. 2) They aren't prepared to make the debt interest payments as the price of being in the Euro. 3) The Germans aren't prepared (and who can blame them?) to permanently subsidise Greek lifestyles. So they have to leave the Eurozone, and personally I'd throw them out of the EU and try to recover the money through tariff barriers. The idea that there has been some huge contraction in the Greek economy, and it is the fault of the other countries, is just laughable. If someone was paid 2,000 Euros to sit in a park in Athens and drink fortified wine you wouldn't call that a job, and you wouldn't count their "activity" - or inactivity - towards GDP. But somehow if Germany provides money to create non-jobs which involve sitting in an office, rather than a park, we're supposed to count that "output" (playing Crystal Maze, or whatever) in the GDP figures, and blame Germany when the "contraction" happens. Yeah, right...
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