Greece: Preferred Prime Minister

[You kip if you want to...]

Who's best placed to deal with the ongoing crisis?

[Franzl]

Oh, Papandreou without a doubt. I feel quite sorry for him. He's an intelligent, competent prime minister that makes the impression that he actually wants to solve problems.

Pity there are so many Greeks that see it differently.

[You kip if you want to...]

Oh, Papandreou without a doubt. I feel quite sorry for him. He's an intelligent, competent prime minister that makes the impression that he actually wants to solve problems.

Pity there are so many Greeks that see it differently.

I mostly agree. Of course, a lot of his actions, in my opinion, have been questionable, he's by far better than the alternatives.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Papandreou all the way. He's probably one of the lone honest and good-willing politicians left in Greece.

[The Mikado]

There is no dealing with this crisis.

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Papandreou, you don't change horses in the middle of a river. Also I think he's done well under the circumstances.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Papandreou is the best politician to ever come out of Greece, which isn't saying much but he's a well meaning guy and he's quite intelligent. The problem is that Greece has no real alternatives besides defaulting. While I think he could have sold austerity to the populace better and that he could have structured it differently, if I were in his shoes I would have probably done the same.

[Hash]

I'd probably vote KKE for kicks at this point. It's not like it actually matters, given that the IMF is the new Greek government.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

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I'd switch my vote to Synaspismós after this latest Papendreou stunt.

[Leftbehind]

Alexis Tsipras, with the knowledge the Greeks might actually vote socialist in the climate.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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I'd switch my vote to Synaspismós after this latest Papendreou stunt.

How does that work? Papandreou goes for what you think to be a political stunt and so you switch your notional support to a party that exists only for the purpose of political stunts? In practice, anyway. So, why not go all the way and notionally back the KKE? At least they're funny.

[Hash]

So, yeah, KKE. I knew Papandreou was pretty much a useless tool, but I didn't figure out he was an idiot.

[© tweed]

why would people coming from a left perspective only be angry at Papandreou now?  my whole issue with the whole thing is democratic deficit, from both sides: neither the German public nor the Greek public supports this finance capital master plan.  now after he puts it up to a referendum you jump ship?

[You kip if you want to...]

why would people coming from a left perspective only be angry at Papandreou now?  my whole issue with the whole thing is democratic deficit, from both sides: neither the German public nor the Greek public supports this finance capital master plan.  now after he puts it up to a referendum you jump ship?

The European Union? Undemocratic!? Well, I never.

But seriously, heaven forbid the public have a voice in all this. Not like it's their jobs and livelihoods or anything.

[Хahar 🤔]

why would people coming from a left perspective only be angry at Papandreou now?  my whole issue with the whole thing is democratic deficit, from both sides: neither the German public nor the Greek public supports this finance capital master plan.  now after he puts it up to a referendum you jump ship?

The European Union? Undemocratic!? Well, I never.

But seriously, heaven forbid the public have a voice in all this. Not like it's their jobs and livelihoods or anything.

To be fair, referenda are almost never a good way to decide anything.

[© tweed]

why would people coming from a left perspective only be angry at Papandreou now?  my whole issue with the whole thing is democratic deficit, from both sides: neither the German public nor the Greek public supports this finance capital master plan.  now after he puts it up to a referendum you jump ship?

The European Union? Undemocratic!? Well, I never.

But seriously, heaven forbid the public have a voice in all this. Not like it's their jobs and livelihoods or anything.

To be fair, referenda are almost never a good way to decide anything.

why is this?  this certainly is not the truism you sell it to be.

[RogueBeaver]

Papandreou. Not the supposed "conservatives" who giverned like socialists while in office.

[Antonio the Sixth]

My opinion of Papandreou was very positive and it still remains positive now. Calling a referendum, as dangerous as it might be, was basically the only way he had to sell all the sh*t Merkel&Co force him to sell without losing any democratic legitimacy. The true problem is this f*king crazy ideology of austerity, which solves absolutely nothing and is bringing Greece back to the Middle Age. Instead of trying to find a pragmatic solution to this sh*t, Europe's bigwigs keep on their idiotic rhetoric of "punishing Greece for its budgetary laxism". Well, if Greece goes down, and then the whole eurozone goes down, maybe those idiots will start realizing that they just committed economic suicide.

[You kip if you want to...]

Papandreou. Not the supposed "conservatives" who giverned like socialists while in office.

When right-wingers mess up it's because they're too left-wing in their ways.

why would people coming from a left perspective only be angry at Papandreou now?  my whole issue with the whole thing is democratic deficit, from both sides: neither the German public nor the Greek public supports this finance capital master plan.  now after he puts it up to a referendum you jump ship?

The European Union? Undemocratic!? Well, I never.

But seriously, heaven forbid the public have a voice in all this. Not like it's their jobs and livelihoods or anything.

To be fair, referenda are almost never a good way to decide anything.

why is this?  this certainly is not the truism you sell it to be.

I agree with this on a lot of thing, mostly when they're on technical stuff like voting systems and the EU, but y'know... when it's a matter of job or no job for some people, i'd like to think they deserve some kind've say in it.