On board S/Y Bushido
However you cut it, Greek demagogues are bluffing that the faceless suits of Brussels will give in to the blackmail and fold their hand. Greeks are gamblers to start with, and some are even very good poker players. The tragedy is that the very same criminals who ruined the country to begin with are about to be re-elected on 17 June. The criminals, led by Antonis Samaras, have 27 per cent, the left-wing bluffer and con man Tsipras 25 per cent. Talk about Scylla and Charybdis!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that this Tsipras chappie who came in second and is running neck-and-neck with the so-called centre-right was an enemy of my class and background but that his hands were clean. Now some people tell me that I was being naive.
One of Tsipras’s backers is a publisher by the name of Bobolas, whose TV network and newspapers parrot him and his populist message.
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