Greek Finance Minister...

You can't give Corbyn credit for sticking to his principles when you're implementing policy proven to fail. He must be a lunatic if he thinks you can actually look after people the way the Greeks did. Perhaps he thinks can resurrect the coal and steel industries to support it. This eccentric idealism is evidence that the he has less of a clue about the economy than previously suspected.

Edited by johnfirewall (01 Mar 2016 12.06pm)

Well, you haven't really, you've spouted your opinion.

Blaming Varoufakis for Greece's financial plight is like blaming Parish now for us going to administration under Goldberg.

Varoufakis resigned his post when it became clear that the EU weren't going to release their stranglehold on Greece's debt and that his ideas weren't even going to be contemplated. He's had ideas in papers which have been widely supported, not just among the left, in relation to the European debt crisis. It's only EU politicians that have shut down his ideas, not academics, as it relates to restructuring debt in a way which allows a bit of breathing space for future growth.

Trying to discredit him by lumping him in with decades of social and economic mismanagement of Greece just because he was Finance Minister for a couple of months is completely disingenuous.

Wow just wow, two pages and you managed to get refugees into the mix.

And how can you dismiss tax collection, it is the mainstay of governments coffers, and the money they were borrowing instead of getting it off their own people came back to bite them in the ass.

Have a quick hope across the med to Greece now and see how its working out for them now.

Greece were masters of thier own downfall. The fact that Corbyn obvioulsy loves this bloke should come of no surprise, who's next I wonder a quick sauna with Mao Tse tung to discuss the peoples Army ?

Give it a rest corbyn and his cohort (including the racist pig Abbott) are about as electable as fly covered dog egg. And whats more you know it.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

disingenuous - get you all grown up with your fancy words.

He wasn't just a minister for a few months, he had been an adviser to a previous minister.

His CV looks like a person who flounces around with his airy fairy ideology and gets out before the sh1t hits the fan.

Economics is an area where too many variables come into play and chancers like him have excuses to make about why their original forecasts don't bear fruit.

Like it or not he is tainted by the Greek financial collapse.

Not really. I'm still very undecided.

I don't blame the EU for the problems, they were very much instigated in Greece, but the EU have done as much (or little) as the Greek people to resolve the problems.

Plenty of companies offer incentives that turn out to be unachievable, and are withdrawn - such as final salary pensions.

Thing about Greece, is that money wasn't just going to the people. 45% of the Greeks insane defence spending went to the US. Goldman Sachs was involved in essentially defrauding the EU and Greek people and facilitating the capacity of the Greek Government to meet Monetary Union requirements. I suspect that a lot of that deficit ended up going into private hands, and interests.

Greek Nationals currently hold as much 20bn in evaded tax sitting in Swiss bank accounts which the country argues is the 'under reported tax'.

There is a point where mismanagement is actually fraud.

Edited by jamiemartin721 (01 Mar 2016 4.36pm)

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