Athens ablaze tonight

[Chicken Runner61]

Fires everywhere cafes & shops ablaze

 

[clippedgull]

Is that celebrating the kindling of the Olympic Torch?

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

They'll soon be crying again to the UN saying they are skint. AGAIN!!!!

 

[Chicken Runner61]

What's a Greek Ern?

About 20% less tonight if he's on minimum wage

 

[severnside gull]

what the Germans couldn't achieve in WWII they have succeeded in today

 

[Gangsta]

EU = Gestapo Khazi = Democratic Void = This.

Military Junta by end of year?

 

[Chicken Runner61]

EU = Gestapo Khazi = Democratic Void = This.

Military Junta by end of year?

Where? Here or there?

 

[Chicken Runner61]

what the Germans couldn't achieve in WWII they have succeeded in today

And without the loss of a solitary sunbed too

 

[Blackadder]

I feel sorry for the average Greek citizen. They have been poorly led by their government. They are being well and truly shafted. I bet most of them wish they had never heard of the EU.

 

[arkan]

Having lived in Greece for a while and have genuine love for the people and the country as a whole, i feel immensely sorry but also angry at how the country has turned out in the past couple of years.

This austerity package passed today will cripple Greece even more and bring this once proud nation to its knees.

I feel sorry for the innocent greek people who are being strangled by their own government and by the international financial institutions who care more about ‘debt’ and ‘money’ that doesnt even exist than the lives of real people.

But tbh smashing up Athens (again) will make no difference its been a crappy looking city for aslong as i can remember. Just grey concrete buildings and graffiti. Needs a good renovation

 

[Jim D]

If I was the sort of person who believed in conspiracy theory I'd think that Germany deliberately allowed the Euro crisis to occur so that they could have more direct control over Southern Europe. Now I bet the Greeks, Italians, Portugese, Irish and Spanish didn't think of that when they all charged into the new currency did they?

 

[nevergoagain]

"You burned your own town" to AEK next season in the Europa League ?

 

[Lady Gull]

Awful - I have a very good friend Greek friend who is a doctor - I spoke to him only yesterday on the phone - he should be flying over here this morning to work til Thursday - then he commutes back to Athens for three days.

I hope his family and him are safe

 

[brunswick]

what you need to understand is this:

a bailout is money for the banks so they can loan AT INTEREST to the people.....(to pay it back).

BUT, the people pay for it twice as they pay for it again in austerity measures to get the bailout in the first place. its a mafia elite scam, and most are too asleep to realise.

 

[Medwayseagull]

They'll soon be crying again to the UN saying they are skint. AGAIN!!!!

The UN ? Do you have any understanding of the debt issue and which institution does what ?

 

[Smile]

It must be shocking in Greece, here in Spain it is very bad. The children have to take blankets to school as they cannot afford to put the heating on! I have two boys who depend on medicine and I now have to spend €350 per month on it as the Spanish health system cannot afford it. I pay lots of taxes and medicines should be free but they now only give the minimum.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

I feel sorry for the average Greek citizen. They have been poorly led by their government. They are being well and truly shafted. I bet most of them wish they had never heard of the EU.

I'd feel more sorry if there wasn't such a systemic problem with Greek citizens paying tax. For too many, and far far more than any problems we have here, Greeks see tax as optional. Heard somewhere that one full time dentist only said that he earnt 6k in one year.

 

[m20gull]

what you need to understand is this:

a bailout is money for the banks so they can loan AT INTEREST to the people.....(to pay it back).

BUT, the people pay for it twice as they pay for it again in austerity measures to get the bailout in the first place. its a mafia elite scam, and most are too asleep to realise.

There is a difference between the UK bank bailout and a Greek government bailout.

 

[Albion Dan]

A third of all Greeks are now in Poverty, 20% unemployed and the new cuts will result in a massive TWENTY percent cut in their minimum wage. It would have been much better for them to default surely? They are being forced into this to prevent banks taking the hit for lending money that they never should have in the first place.

Hard to see anything other than widespread mass social unrest for years, possibly civil war, that could spread to a few other countries.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

David Cameron wants Turkey to become part of the EU later on? I just cannot see this working and I feel most people will leave Turkey for places like Germany and the UK to find work which just adds to our own unemployment issues, but please correct me if I am wrong. I just don't feel Turkey has a strong enough economy to join it.