Somebody’s really trying hard to make a point
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February 2, 2015 at 3:40pm
When cabinet ministers insist on dressing like this to do their job, you kind of know that what really drives them is not their wish to sort out the economy and the country, but the need to work out their own personal issues.
Malta knows that through experience.
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If it has to be black leather get rid of the limo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTiKYxeICU
Excellent, Jozef. The capture is so exact.
That is exactly the impression I got of Varoufakis as soon as I heard that he went to his meeting with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem on his motorbike.
That’s cool.
When I saw this pic and the group photo of the first Syriza government cabinet meeting, the dreadful image of the Mintoff/Lorry Sant/Danny Cremona troika sprung to mind.
So I think I will forgive the Jackie O wannabees we have today.
The fundamental here is our incapability to come up with anything new which can unify collective spirit.
Our politicians call it vision. We’ve been told it’s a lifestyle.
We’ve handed secularism to Labour’s Muscat and blame Busuttil for waiting for our individual reactions, one at a time.
In the current situation Greece has voted for suicide.
Not so fast. The Greeks are playing a canny game. They have been elected on a populist agenda which is now seen to be succeeding also in Spain. That frightens the bureaucrats.
This morning on the BBC world service, the German economic adviser to Angela Merkel was playing hard ball however even he was hinting at a possible negotiation on how the debt is serviced.
Whilst the Germans are saying you need our money, the Greeks are saying we don’t want your money its a drug (pretty much using Germany’s own arguments against it) and saying what we want is a period when we pay the debt and not the interest. The Greeks may yet win through, especially as the alternative may be the end of the Euro, which the Germans are not happy to see.
Chris, it is not true at all that the populist agenda of “Podemos” (“We Can”) is succeeding also in Spain.
The conservatives in Spain (PP) still have a massive lead – Podemos are taking the hardline socialist vote of disgruntled PSOE (Socialist Party) supporters, who would like the party to be militant, trade unionist, republican and revolutionary. PSOE is now more akin to the German social democrats than the Spanish communists, which is why Podemos has such populist backing. But it’s fragmenting the left, not taking votes away from the right.
The Greeks and their creditors are well and truly f#$%!@.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/wearing-a-padded-gilet-and-jeans-to-prove-how-important-and-cool-we-are/
You know you are in trouble when your limo driver is better dressed than you
Its all about branding: flashing slogans, glitzy apparel, flashing lights, sirens, postures, tweets and sports wear – all activated at the wrong time and unexpected locations but more importantly for the wrong reasons. The ignorami are deeply impressed by this and it is destined to make a hit. But since the proof of the pudding is in the eating, by the time that the pudding is up for eating, the pitifully impressed will only end up with the branding as the pudding will be rotten inside.
Is that all you can say about the man, Daphne? You don’t like the way he dresses?
Have you any clue of what he’s been saying for the past three years? Do you really know what the troika have been up to in Greece, and how they go about impoverishing and enslaving the euro-zone countries?
Imbaghad tiehu ghalik meta nsejjahlek Pollyanna.
You are so misguided you wouldn’t understand his perspective, anyway, but here’s a good interview for anyone who’s interested in what he says rather than in how he looks: http://youtu.be/FJP1Ysx47fo
[Daphne – No, Kevin, I didn’t say I dislike the way he dresses. Those are normal clothes; they’re just inappropriate to the job and occasion. I said something else: that clothes are communication, and what he’s communicating there is not his desire to shift the Greek economy.]
This particular minister is a leftist intellectual stuck in the 70s and is nostalgic of the Soviet Union. Together with the immature and inexperienced prime minister, the new Greek cabinet want to veto and remove the EU sanctions against Russia (who they call their brother).
Like Malta, the 70s dinosaurs have use boredom/anger etc and a new young maverick to put them into power and implement their unchanged agenda of forty years ago. the world and circumstances have changed in the meantime, but they do not recognize that change.
When you have been screwed for a few billion Euros by the suits at Goldman Sacs, you will not want to dress like them when representing the gallant Greek people. Dephane wake up.
[Daphne – Wake up and listen to somebody who can’t even copy my name off the top of the page, and who thinks the outfit is called Goldman Sacs? I really don’t think so.]
I listened to Minister Varoufakis being interviewed on the BBC.
You have to admire British journalists. After Varoufakis gave a tirade of anarchic-communist rhetoric, his interviewer asked him whether he was going to sell his house in London and invest the money in Greek banks.
The look on his face was priceless as was the disjointed response on how that was a private affair.
I don’t really subscribe to that point of view. The guy is not a fool and he is actually following the dress code of his leader, Alexis Tsipras.
Whatever Joseph Muscat, Miriam Dalli and Angela Merkel say, Greece cannot pay the whole debt it owes and unless the public creditors accept a haircut on their loans, the country will never recover.
Probity should have been in place when German and French banks were lending Greece money without control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis
Why do the Greek people keep on believing that they can live on other people’s money forever?
Greece was bailed out first by Germany and France way back when the generals gave back democracy to the people.
That was when the EEC immediately accepted it as an EEC member and oiled Greece’s economy to a healthy state. But all the time the Greeks expected the EEC/EU to keep on financing their laziness, tax evasion and corruption. There’s a limit to this arrogance.
We Maltese had carried out the necessary economic reforms that have created a strong albeit small economy while the Greeks have failed miserably by clinging to their corrupt ‘ideals’ instigated by left-wing ideologies and politicians.
Spot on. That’s what I thought as well.