As reports come through of Athenian Bank workers being murdered in a petrol bomb attack, of 100,000 rioters taking to the streets, of a country paralysed by strikes and of Government buildings set ablaze, the British public should reflect upon how the Greeks came to this appalling scenario. As they angrily dismiss any politician that is so brazen as to talk to them of cuts Briton’s shouldn’t be so quick as to forget that it’s now their own country that has Europe’s largest budget deficit, at the eye wateringly high 12% of GDP, just over that of Greece’s.
The total failure to come to terms with the reality of their situation is what is currently being violently displayed by the Greeks in their Capital; the reality being that they’ve lived fatally beyond their means, and it is this same failure to come to terms with reality that is seen when the British entertain the idea that what they’re currently being told by their centre-left politicians is in anyway plausible. It was the unhinged notion that it is the role of the Government to employ everyone who needs a job and borrow its way out of recessions that has insured Greece’s demise and it’s this same economic insanity that would quickly deliver Britain into precisely the same fate.
Upon the Acropolis Greek Socialists have erected a huge banner calling on the ‘Workers of Europe to Rise up!’ What exactly do they expect this to achieve, it is now those European economies that allowed their markets to recover unmarred by high tax and inflation while diligently preventing the size of their State from ballooning out of all control who are now begrudgingly riding to the rescue of the wildly thankless Greeks. Yet just as was witnessed in Britain in the 1970s; the economic chaos caused by mainstream-leftleaning governments soon creates the perfect breading ground for the most radical leftwing countercultural elements. Busily they are building up the barricades.
Today in Britain we rarely see a great deal of our extremist left beyond the university campuses. They come out from time to time at anti-war rallies to remind us they are still with us and startle us with the knowledge that there are still those clinging the arcane ideas of a 19th century German-Jewish philosopher who have not quite yet become entirely extinct. Yet if we allow the centre-left in Britain to continue with their reckless spending spree then we will quickly start to see a lot more of those proclaiming the doctrine of Marx and Anarchism and raising the red flag high on our streets. If the scenes from London in January 2009 (when Israel launched its Cast Lead operation against Hamas) are anything to go by then the seeds of a dangerous counterculture are present in vast swathes of our population’s mindset and it wouldn’t take a lot of economic mismanagement on the part of a Lib-Lab government to bring it into full and horrifying fruition.
The total failure to come to terms with the reality of their situation is what is currently being violently displayed by the Greeks in their Capital; the reality being that they’ve lived fatally beyond their means, and it is this same failure to come to terms with reality that is seen when the British entertain the idea that what they’re currently being told by their centre-left politicians is in anyway plausible. It was the unhinged notion that it is the role of the Government to employ everyone who needs a job and borrow its way out of recessions that has insured Greece’s demise and it’s this same economic insanity that would quickly deliver Britain into precisely the same fate.
Upon the Acropolis Greek Socialists have erected a huge banner calling on the ‘Workers of Europe to Rise up!’ What exactly do they expect this to achieve, it is now those European economies that allowed their markets to recover unmarred by high tax and inflation while diligently preventing the size of their State from ballooning out of all control who are now begrudgingly riding to the rescue of the wildly thankless Greeks. Yet just as was witnessed in Britain in the 1970s; the economic chaos caused by mainstream-leftleaning governments soon creates the perfect breading ground for the most radical leftwing countercultural elements. Busily they are building up the barricades.
Today in Britain we rarely see a great deal of our extremist left beyond the university campuses. They come out from time to time at anti-war rallies to remind us they are still with us and startle us with the knowledge that there are still those clinging the arcane ideas of a 19th century German-Jewish philosopher who have not quite yet become entirely extinct. Yet if we allow the centre-left in Britain to continue with their reckless spending spree then we will quickly start to see a lot more of those proclaiming the doctrine of Marx and Anarchism and raising the red flag high on our streets. If the scenes from London in January 2009 (when Israel launched its Cast Lead operation against Hamas) are anything to go by then the seeds of a dangerous counterculture are present in vast swathes of our population’s mindset and it wouldn’t take a lot of economic mismanagement on the part of a Lib-Lab government to bring it into full and horrifying fruition.
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