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Greek Parliament passes austerity bill

Spot on.

There's an awful lot of people, and institutions, to 'blame' for the position that Greece finds itself in. You're right that Greek has overspent for years. Early retirement, generous pensions, massive failure to collect taxes (from individuals and Corporate) massive military spending, even...

Really? Even you can't really believe that. Germany and France at loggerheads, German finance minister shouting at his Italian counterpart, the largest state bullying another smaller one forcing years of austerity on it, Greece being allowed to borrow billions of euros purely to pay back money...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33437797 I can't understand why they are waiting till Sunday. The banks will have run out of money by then surely?

Which considering your usual anti-austerity stance, and your socialist views was somewhat unusual. I guess it's because it happens to be Germany to whom the majority of the money is owed. You really must stop reading the propaganda churned out in Bild.

You were being criticised for your total lack of empathy with the Greek people.

BBC 1 now, panorama.

I am really surprised by your lack of empathy for the Greek people. I thought you considered yourself a socialist and a European. These are real people. I'm sure when the banks lent billions to individuals who had no means of repaying the debt, you blamed the banks when they went belly up...

Polls close at 5pm UK time. Looks likely that it's going to be a 'No'

Referendum today. What will tomorrow bring? If it's yes, then the Government will probably have to resign, and call an election. No, and will the process of Greece leaving the Euro and the EU start?

http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/171A3/production/_83972649_a02d2b44-59a1-4f4c-9538-6628cf6c52f8.jpg tweet: A massive 'Oxi' [No] banner has been unfurled from inside the Greek Finance Ministry. I can't imagine it at HMT (From the BBC Business page)

There's no doubt they got themselves into this mess - massively bloated public sector, retiring at 52 on unsustainable pensions for some 'strenuous' jobs -(hairdressing is included in that list if you're interested) and the books were clearly cooked to get into the Euro - BUT Germany and France...

http://www.iefimerida.gr/news/214762/telegraph-mas-endiaferei-i-hreokopia-tis-elladas-elahista An interesting headline!

Agree that the EU have turned this into an IN/OUT referendum, and with your point about blackmail, but it wasn't the EU that called the referendum in the first place. That came, completely out of the blue, from Tsispras, on Friday night.

Just got off the phone with one of my Greek friends. He's really 'upset and disappointed' that Tsispras seems to be caving in. When I said to him that it was either negotiate a deal, sign and stay in the €, he disagreed, saying he thought they could say NO on Sunday in the referendum, and...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33303105

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33300543 Where do they go from here? Queues at the ATMs according to my friends.

Agree entirely about the cheap credit from Germany (and France) much of which was spent on military equipment, and about the massive tax evasion (it's not just the rich, it's endemic throughout Greek Society) and about the corruption. I have lots of Greek friends, indeed I spoke to one today...

But the alternative may be far, far worse.