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They pushed the anti-austerity agenda that they were elected on as far as they possibly could. OK, they may have been naive and the deal may have been impossible, but the Greek people elected them on their agenda, same as every democracy does on any party's agenda. At least no individual member...

To be fair though, he did push the anti-austerity stance to the max and tested the will of Greece's creditors as far as he possibly could before the Greek banks were about to go bust. At that point he had to step back from the brink. The creditors will prevailed, as it always had to if the...

Would be nice if the Greeks could for once call a halt to air traffic control strikes over the Summer so we could bring some Euros into the country to spend. No other way Euros are going to trickle down into the tavernas. Cheers. :thumbsup:

Not saying he's not had to do a massive climb-down, just that he's not crumbled into a complete basket-case by now, unlike his demonic ex-Finance minister. Can you imagine what this must be doing to his mental health, his heart and his blood pressure? Doesn't bear thinking about really.

Whatever anyone's stance on the Greek crisis is, you have to admire, shirley, the ability of Alexis Tsipras to keep functioning rationally and not cracking up, despite being under the most horrendous unrelenting pressure from all sides. Total respect to the bloke :bowdown:

Reckon the rest of the Eurozone just want Greece to piss off now, so they can devote a bit of their time to running their own countries and dealing with other issues.

What was it Robert Maxwell once said? Something along the lines of "If you owe the bank £1000 then it's your problem, but if you owe them £10,000,000 then it quickly becomes their problem"

Greeks never struck me particularly as great wheat eaters. Chicken and chips and Greek salad, certainly. Wheat? Not so much. :moo:

How f*cking DARE the pure-greed-driven global institutions that caused all of this post-2008 mess in the first place beat up on the ordinary citizens of Greece! Utterly shameful, and total respect to the Greek people for overwhelmingly telling them to SWIVEL :bowdown:

Plenty of oil and gas money available for the right strategic project.

Germany going that extra mile to drive Greece into the welcoming arms of either Putin or a US-backed new set of Colonels. Well done.

Good point, well made :down:

If the Greeks have any sense at all they won't start calling general strikes left right and centre over the summer because the tourist euros are the only euros they're likely to be getting before the autumn and the last thing they want to be doing is cutting off the supply of tourists.

Damn right. Fantastic, if confirmed, that a nation has people, scared and under severe monetary pressure, who still have the balls to say 'F*ck You' to the moneymen whose naked greed and stupidity caused all this grief in the first place.

In the end the Greeks have nothing to fear. The Greek people will survive. The first world will not let them not survive, one way or another. Greece will be around in a thousand years. The troika and the euro? Not so much.

That baldie finance minister looks WAY too pleased with himself for my liking. Something not right there ???

Too true blue. Seems that the EU has lost complete sight of the fact that it is supposed to represent its member states who in turn are comprised of individual citizens who overwhelmingly have modest hopes and aspirations and want not a lot more than a roof over their head, a job and a bit of a...

You have to feel deeply deeply sorry for the ordinary Greeks caught up in the middle of this appalling shitstorm. It must seem terrifying, like all the worst Daily Express scare stories came true all at once.. How long do you think any European country, including the UK, would survive without...

Would be good if the Greeks didn't start calling general strikes over the Summer, seeing as how the tourist Euro is they only influx of Euros they're likely to be getting over the next financial quarter.

Probably very churlish to say so, and not much fun for the locals or the recipients, but if Greece were to lease out - in return for a suitable level of debt adjustment - some of the largely uninhabited parts of the fairly massive island of Crete to the EU for the inward processing of boat...