No offence Julio, but I’ll await the Runts pronouncement on this latest twist on the financial crisis. The Runt knows the score. [quote=“Julio Geordio, post: 519871”]
Potentially positive as they may not call a referendum now.
Talks a coalition government will be cobbled together to pass the bill. No saying they can get a group to agree to that either though or how long it will take.
Ze Germans & Le French have said no more money for the Greeks until they pass it. They’ll be bust by the end of November at the latest according to most estimates.
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Having been sneered at by a Greek ice-cream seller aboard a ferry from Athens to Ios before, I’m personally delighted about all this. I’ll take great pleasure in going over and purchasing his eldest daughter off him for €20 later this year.
I’d say every threat and bribe under the sun was thrown at Papandreou in Cannes last night. If the Greeks say no, that means the French banks take an instant hit of $50 billion+. The French taxpayers will have to pay that themselves unless the Germans offer to pay some of it, meaning that Sarkozy will not be re-elected to start with and who knows what else. He must be shitting himself.
It’s funny how you still see people describing it as a bail out for the Greeks when it’s nothing of the sort. The French and Germans are desperate to bail themselves out and are hoping the Greeks might pay for it.
I’m beginning to think that Julio is applying a level of critical analysis to this topic that is lost on some of the other forumites, including, sad to say, the Runt.
Ya so the least they should do is try to stay in the euro.
If that means sucking Sarkozy off then thats what they need to do. The alternative is a total collapse of civilisation.