To Pasok and New Democracy

The Larrikin has a few words of advice for the frontrunners of the newly formed coalition

To Pasok, its leaders, and those of New Democracy,

I am afraid I must be the one to inform you that you have just sold your country down the river. You have given up your dignity, your legacy and your heritage. Yes, all of that, as well as your economic sovereignty.

For the past four decades, you have run Greece, and the results are in: you failed.

And yet, somehow, you have just ‘won’ the election. It begs the question of whether the Greek people know what they’re voting for, and the truth that by electing you into government they have voted against their own self-interest.

This coalition election ‘win’, if one can call it that, is in no way a victory for Greece as a country. You claim that you will renegotiate the terms of the austerity measures, and yet, the rest of the EU has continued to say there will be no change. You are playing a game of cards, sirs, and all you have in your hand is a pair of jokers.

I would like to focus on one issue of your ‘win’, that of the media and the EU’s intervention in this election. News outlets barraged the Greek people for weeks prior to the election, screaming that: ‘This is a vote on staying or leaving the Eurozone.’ This statement is one part lie, two parts exaggeration, and three parts propagandist intervention.

David Cameron, in all of his ‘wisdom’, said time and again that if the Greek people wanted to remain in the Eurozone, they must vote for a pro-austerity party. It is on the back of comments like this that New Democracy gained just under 30% of the vote. The EU teased, tormented and frightened the Greek people into voting for New Democracy.

Let us be clear: Greeks do not want to leave the Euro, and a vote on domestic politics does not equal a vote to leave the Euro.

The people of Greece are suffering. They are not lazy, as Christine Lagarde of the IMF would have you believe. Before she discusses Greeks paying taxes, maybe she should pay tax on her income of $500,000 (she pays 0% tax, as do all U.N. officials).

Venizelos - as leader of Pasok I urge you to remember and think of the needs of the Greek people. You call yourself a ‘socialist’, and it is to that name which I hold you. So put the people first, capital second. Now is a time for change and you have the power to make that change.

Until you do make that change, the youth will continue suffering 50% unemployment and the old the loss of their pensions. People can only take so much before they revolt - and I fear that the Greek people are at the end of their rope.

In sum: the following economic depression that Greece faces and the revolt of the people will be on your head, and on your conscience.