Ouch! The Telegraph. Ouch! Evans-Pritchart (--> wikipedia), another person impressed by Lapavitsas.
"" [...] So Syriza called the referendum. To their consternation, they won, igniting the great Greek revolt of 2015, the moment when the people finally issued a primal scream, daubed their war paint, and formed the hoplite phalanx. Mr Tsipras is now trapped by his success. "The referendum has its own dynamic. People will revolt if he comes back from Brussels with a shoddy compromise," said Costas Lapavitsas, a Syriza MP. "Tsipras doesn't want to take the path of Grexit, but I think he realizes that this is now what lies straight ahead of him," he said. What should have been a celebration on Sunday night turned into a wake. Mr Tsipras was depressed, dissecting all the errors that Syriza has made since taking power in January, talking into the early hours. [...]"" Robert Naiman <[email protected]> forwarded: > > > Europe is blowing itself apart over Greece - and nobody seems able to stop it > > Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras never expected to win Sunday's referendum. He > is now trapped and hurtling towards Grexit > > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11724924/Europe-is-blowing-itself-apart-over-Greece-and-nobody-can-stop-it.html > > > By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Athens > 8:35PM BST 07 Jul 2015 > > > Like a tragedy from Euripides, the long struggle between Greece and Europe's > creditor powers is reaching a cataclysmic end that nobody planned, nobody > seems able to escape, and that threatens to shatter the greater European order > in the process. > > Greek premier Alexis Tsipras never expected to win Sunday's referendum on EMU > bail-out terms, let alone to preside over a blazing national revolt against > foreign control. > > He called the snap vote with the expectation - and intention - of losing it. > The plan was to put up a good fight, accept honourable defeat, and hand over > the keys of the Maximos Mansion, leaving it to others to implement the June 25 > "ultimatum" and suffer the opprobrium. > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
