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mk  ·  3455 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "No" ahead in Greek referendum EDIT: it's official

I just heard it is 60% with 20% of votes counted.

I thought the talk was that most Greeks wanted to stay in. Good on them.





PetesPassing  ·  3455 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Watchdog  ·  3454 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think anyone is surprised by that result. If it was yes, I think there would have been riots.

deepflows  ·  3454 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Never underestimate the capacity of the peopleā„¢ to vote for their own (economic) butchers.

Watchdog  ·  3454 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well they know they personally will not pay for it as the majority of the voters probably feel like they don't have anything to lose. The "rich" or older professionals are the ones who are like "oh my god, what are they doing?!?"

deepflows  ·  3454 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for the update. German news media is already discussing the implications.

Sigmar Gabriel, current chieftain of the SPD (so called social-democratic party which has transformed into a junior partner of the neo-liberal CDU, Merkel's party, in recent years) as expected took the opportunity to make an complete ass out of himself. According to him, Tsirpas is leading the greek people into "a time of bitter sacrifice and hopelessness."

Bitter hopelessness and no hope for any real recovery of course is not at all what Merkel, Gabriel and the Troika crew have in store for the greek people. No, sir.

Meanwhile, the Sparkasse (German savings bank) is pushing for greece to leave the EURO. Well, SPD and our Banks in agreement once again. What a surprise.