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Greece votes No: The European Union is dying before our eyes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/11720081/Greece-votes-No-The-European-Union-is-dying-before-our-eyes.html ^ | Nigel Farage

Posted on 07/06/2015 4:44:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Despite the scaremongering and bullying from those in Brussels, we are waking today with Greece having delivered a resounding No.

That comes despite EU bosses saying that it would mean a Greek exit from the Euro, not to mention the heavy economic pressure placed on the Greek people to go along with the wishes of Brussels. It is a crushing defeat for those Eurocrats who believe that you can simply bulldoze public opinion.

Chief bully-boy Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and other supposed leaders of the European Union did their best to terrify the Greek people into submitting to the wishes of the European Union. But they utterly failed. The fear espoused by the Yes campaign was rejected. Opinion polls that put the Yes side ahead just days before were way out, as thousands upon thousands of Greek citizens lined the streets chanting “Oxi”.

Where does Greece go from here? Well it seems to me that Alexis Tsipras cannot go on having his cake and eating it. A more prosperous Greece, ran by the Greeks rather than by the EU must surely face up to the reality that a euro exit is both inevitable and desirable in order for a long-term economic recovery to truly begin.

There is a bigger picture to consider, however. A huge generational dynamic exists, running through all of this. One poll from Antenna News in Greece found that 67 per cent of Greeks under the age of 35 voted No which shows just how much the seismic plates are shifting within European politics. The fact that young Greeks overwhelmingly rejected the Brussels dictat and voted No in huge numbers is of massive significance.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; dying; european; europeanunion; france; germany; greece; nato; syriza; union; unitedkingdom
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To: riverdawg

Greek prostitute futures market is doing well.


41 posted on 07/06/2015 7:32:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: BobL

I hope you’re wrong.

I fear you’re right...


42 posted on 07/06/2015 7:39:32 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: super7man
I'm trying to think of an important Greek product that I buy. Hmmmmmm....

Poorly designed....badly assembled and doesn't work.

43 posted on 07/06/2015 8:11:52 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: SkyDancer
Don't forget Portugal -- the fifth member of the PIIGS (Portugal; Ireland; Italy; Greece; Spain.)
44 posted on 07/06/2015 8:28:44 AM PDT by ShorelineMike (Constituo, ergo sum.)
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To: ShorelineMike

Thanks, I was thinking Portugal as well ... interesting times.


45 posted on 07/06/2015 9:34:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Enlightened1

The ancient and powerful rulers of Atlantis had formed a confederation by which they controlled the island of Atlantis and other surrounding nations as well. They began a war from their homeland in the Atlantic Ocean and sent fighting troops to Europe and Asia. Against this attack, the men of Athens formed a coalition of surrounding army’s from all over Greece to halt the invasion. When the coalition met with difficulties, the allies deserted the Athenians and left them to fight alone to defeat the powerful Atlantian army. They miraculously stopped the invasion of their own country as well as freeing Egypt. And eventually freed every other country under the control of the authoritarian tyrants of Atlantis.


46 posted on 07/06/2015 12:05:10 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: jonno

“I hope you’re wrong. I fear you’re right...”

Yea, the Europeans are already buckling - they’re giving Greece enough money to keep their ATMs working, and their drug companies (and likely food companies) are still supplying Greece.

They are simply UNABLE to let it go. The EU will NEVER be allowed to die...they will NEVER let that happen.


47 posted on 07/06/2015 4:10:45 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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