Sunday 25 January 2015

The Red Tories of Greece

According to our spoof Prime Minister, we should weep for the death of King Abdullah, but fear the election of Syriza.

It is not inherently left-wing to uphold the basic social fabric by opposing a failed policy programme based on an ideology of "to hell with what works".

In fact, in an historically classical sense, it sounds quite Tory.

Like, for example, opposing wars to make the world anew in order to conform it to some academic blueprint.

People who would certainly be Tories in Britain have voted for Syriza.

Whereas the supposedly more "moderate" Pasok has taken fewer votes than the unreconstructed Communists of the KKE.

After tonight, the Greeks ought to have a specific word for "people power".

2 comments:

  1. Syriza starts its term in office by publicly laying a wreath in honour of those killed by German soldiers in World War Two.

    Unlike some fantasists here, at least they're under no illusions as to what the EU is-another German empire.

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    1. Laying wreaths to the fallen of the Second World War is not completely unheard of in Britain.

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