A Pensioner's Suicide

A man, a pensioner, kills himself in the main Athens Square in protest at what had been done to his country by the euro, by the politicians in Greece who support the euro come what may and by the rest of the eurozone countries and in particular Germany for the imposition of an economic stratagem that means poverty for most Greeks for years to come. You would think that at least one main stream politician or statesman of a country whose economy was floundering from being in the eurozone would object strongly to the the structural glitch at the heart of the currency. But no, like lemmings all politicians of whatever colour are totally committed to staying in and supporting the euro. This is despite the fact that their countries are all going to fall off the cliff sooner or later when they will have to abandon the euro at the worst possible time and in the worst possible manner. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard had a very good piece on this yesterday which you can read here. He also has another piece today about the Greek pensioner's suicide here. The EU is becoming more and more of a monster and it beggars belief that we are not already negotiating our exit. The greatest fault of the EU has been the euro but it feels the need to meddle in all sorts of aspects of our daily lives. I had not appreciated until today that there is a directive on surveillance of emails and the like, nor had I realised that EU rules on state aid may well scupper small UK companies from accessing venture capital funding of more than £2m from Venture Capital Trusts and other forms of state aided, risk capital investment. The stupidity of the EU in general and the eurozone fanatics in particular have already claimed a life. How many more are they going to be willing to sacrifice? Without radical change the EU will lead to significant bloodshed and from where afterwards will eurocrats be able to claim their wages? Not from the disaffected, that's for sure.