by Nikitas » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:56 pm
Verhofstadt knows what he is talking about. The part re the 13 education directors, 12 of whom are Syriza members, is totally true. While promising a break from the old system habits Syriza applied them in full and the response that the other mob did the same is no excuse.
There is no more conservative mode of thinking and more obsolete attitude than that of a Greek leftist. I have many leftist friends and love to goad them about their technophobic, neoluddite attitudes. They are dead against computerisation in the civil service yet they spend hours on ebay buying stuff every day.
Bottom line, the glorious NO had become a compliant YES with much more onerous terms than what was about to be agreed in January. Eight times worse at least. And the Syriza narrative is that this is better because it preserves pride.
And one more, the Syriza dominated journalists union has announced that it will punish eight journalists for their reporting of the referendum campaigns, basically for being for the YES vote. Last time something similar happened in Greece was during the junta.
What you see is not what you get with these people.