Seventeen men are blindfolded and tied together at the ankles. On they wander, and the weakest of them falls down a mineshaft. Due to the rope tying them together, the other sixteen men are pulled down the mineshaft after the weakest one.
Such is the Eurozone disaster about to unfold.
It really is perfectly ludicrous that we are waiting on an election result from Greece. Greece. A country which has gone through numerous contortions over the years going back to the Colonels’ takeover. Greece’s convulsions used to barely make it to page 97 of our papers. Stuff happened.
But now, because of one of most monumentally disastrous ventures in the history of modern man, the Euro, we are all in the thrall of the Greek people.
The next step?
Well, I think Greece could stay in the Euro and renegotiate its rescue package.
Failing that they should leave the Euro in as orderly a fashion as possible. And the rest of the Euro should be dismantled. The sooner this doomed experiment is consigned to history, the better.
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June 16, 2012 at 11:45 pm
..And we all know that following the flannelling and failure of European politicians over the months, the markets will take over and desert Greece like the plague. The Left are fighting amongst themselves in Athens. Syriza are by no means the most popular socialist party but it seems that all the signals from other European capitals is that New Democracy has been left to spin in the wind. It’ll be interesting once the markets open on Monday.
June 17, 2012 at 10:19 am
Superb picture.
But ‘perignations’? Did you mean ‘peregrinations’?
June 17, 2012 at 11:26 am
Thank you. The photo is on Flickr From Aster-oid here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aster-oid/3383912837/
And yes I did mean peregrinations – thank you very much for pointing that out. I now realise that,as well as mis-spelling it, I used the wrong word!