Exit Polls Suggest Syriza Has Won Greek Election

[Alexander's Horse]

Initially I thought this thread was suggesting Syria had won the Greek election - and you thought things couldn't get any worse for the Greeks.

[DinoDoc]

no current legal mechanism to do that and it would be very tricky politically.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when Greece asks Germany for more money.

[Alexander's Horse]

send in the panzers

[C0ckney]

I would love to be a fly on the wall when Greece asks Germany for more money.

that is not what will happen, nor indeed, has been happening. however given coverage of this issue, and the views expressed by your countrymen in this thread, your take on the situation doesn't surprise me.

[Sava]

Initially I thought this thread was suggesting Syria had won the Greek election - and you thought things couldn't get any worse for the Greeks.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

My first thought was, did ISIS develop amphibious technicals?

Then, I imagined them steaming through the Mediterranean with an Arabpop version of Ride of the Valkyries blasting over loudspeakers

[Main_Brain]

I am actually quite curious whom they want to cut their debt. The IMF has as far as I remember never forgiven any debt, the ECB can't per current Charta as that would constitute a direct financing of a Member state, I assume by now most of the private debt is in the Hand of Hedge Funds which I also have a hard time seeing making any concessions..

Ah well lets see how the negotiations for the next 7 Billion relief Tranche go, shall we?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Uh... their coalition partners are quite interesting. Syriza is joining with the Independent Greeks, who are a far-right party who only agree with Syriza on renegotiation on debt and (potentially) leaving the Eurozone.

[Sava]

they should just consolidate everything into two parties

and then one should purposefully do nothing

[C0ckney]

Uh... their coalition partners are quite interesting. Syriza is joining with the Independent Greeks, who are a far-right party who only agree with Syriza on renegotiation on debt and (potentially) leaving the Eurozone.

yes the communists refused (as they have always done) to work with them and the other parties are tainted by links to the failed policies of the last 6 years. so this can be presented as a deliberate rejection of the past and the politicians who have led greece in recent years. they are strange bedfellows, though.

[FlameFlash]

Initially I thought this thread was suggesting Syria had won the Greek election - and you thought things couldn't get any worse for the Greeks.

This is why I even came to the thread...

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

My first thought was, did ISIS develop amphibious technicals?

Then, I imagined them steaming through the Mediterranean with an Arabpop version of Ride of the Valkyries blasting over loudspeakers

[pchang]

I am actually quite curious whom they want to cut their debt. The IMF has as far as I remember never forgiven any debt, the ECB can't per current Charta as that would constitute a direct financing of a Member state, I assume by now most of the private debt is in the Hand of Hedge Funds which I also have a hard time seeing making any concessions..

Ah well lets see how the negotiations for the next 7 Billion relief Tranche go, shall we?

Once they default and leave the Euro, they'll be able to devalue and print all the Drachma's they want. I wonder if rich Greek citizens will be willing to lend their new government any money. If not, they'll have to figure out how to live with a balanced budget after all.

[Alexander's Horse]

Then Greece can go and be what it always was - a backward Asian developing country

[Hauldren Collider]

You'd have to be a colossal moron to lend Greece a dime if they leave the Euro.

It's rather distressing to watch a country self-immolate, but at least given that it's a democracy you can have some solace in the fact that a plurality of Greeks deserve whatever they've cooked up for themselves...

Someday they're gonna have to recognize that C0ckney's candyland and first-world wealth are incompatible. Or not, they could just suck shit for eternity like the rest of the Balkan peninsula.

[Sava]

oh yes

if only we'd listen to you

the balkans would be the wealthiest region on the planet

[Colon™]

Syriza is right about one thing, it's unrealistic to expect Greece to repay all its debt. However, it's complete fantasy to think that others are going to just hand over billions without conditions. Just default and be gone already.