Austerity
becomes, finally, all Greek to the Greeks. Only Troika can do this,
because it depresses the hearts other tears cannot reach.
(with heartfelt homage to the CDP Heineken campaign)
The Slog: A firm based in Tiptree UK – which manufactures and supplies body
armour for military personnel and police forces across the world – has
secured a deal worth more than £1.2million to supply the Greek police
with bullet-proof vests. VestGuard UK’s commercial director Oliver
Lincoln said the company was “absolutely thrilled” to have completed the
order with the Greek police, at a time when the equipment “will really
make a difference to the country”.
Not (on the surface of it) the most tactful of things to say there Ollie, but I think you were referring to our
country, not Greece. I wish Oliver Lincoln all luck in his quest to
find credit insurance for the deal: he’s going to need it. In the
meantime, I see no signs of any difference in Greece, beyond further
slide down a Helter-Troika into the cesspool of globalist madness.
The cradle of democracy itself has, sadly, been converted into a
crèche, and occupied by a small number of mad political babies. The new
‘more fair’ taxation system about to be introduced will, once it has
been passed by the Greek Parliament, call upon all employees, pensioners
and self-employed to pay more tax in advance. The
self-employed are being asked to stump up a ball-crunching 80%. Nothing
like freeing up some working capital to get the economy moving, that’s
what I say.
