Trouble in Greece.

[anotheoldgit]

http://news.bbc.co.uk...ld/europe/8655711.stm

Greece today, where tomorrow?

Isn't it the far left that we should be worried about, it seems it is these that cause the trouble.

Time for the Red Flag to be banned from our streets?

[VHG]

Very similar question posted below (Civil Unrest in the UK).

Maybe you never look at anyone elses questions !

[anotheoldgit]

VHG

I made what I think was my once only mistake in duplicating posts, unlike some who do it on a regular basis.

But why do you always have to be so impolite and aggressive, I had already noticed the post and apologised to the poster.

But then this obviously shows my upbringing compared to yours.

[Gromit]

Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest of us are in trouble because of greedy ankers, speculators and lax regulation.

But it is the public who are having to pay for the mess with job loses, wage cuts and pensions raids. You can imagine why they are not best pleased.

The last major recession under Margaret Thatcher resulted in high unemployment, long bitter strikes and riots in our cities.

Let's hope history does repeat itself.

Oh, and blaming the far left is like blaming children for paedophiles.

[jno]

the Greeks faked their accounts (with some help from Goldman Sachs) to pretend they were ready to enter the EU. Quite why this should mean banning the Red Flag from Britain's streets I cannot fathom. Better off banning Goldman Sachs.

[BillyBB]

Gromit, I couldn't disagree more.
Greece, Spain, Portugal, Itlay, UK are in trouble mainly because of profligate governments.
If you have too many government workers earning too much with too generous a pension who is to pay for it all? The tax receipts are not high enough so it cannot continue. What has that to do with bankers or speculators?
Lax regulation? - here our banks have offices full of people just to fill out reams of useless paperwork due to red tape regulation, it increased massively since 2000 and yet did nothing to stop the crisis. Smarter regulation is needed rather than knee jerk stuff or populist rubbish like the Tobin Tax.
I do blame the far left, if they hadn't repeatedly brought the country to a standstill we wouldn't have had to go through such a recession in the eighties. I wish they would all pee off to Cuba, Venezuela or better still North Korea.