Greece...

[El Pibe]

we are at war with eurasia, we have always...blah...etc..

[steveo]

Keep up Pibe, Jordan won

[????]

Greece has managed to negotiate itself three more days to find the money tree, all is well.....

[Salsaboy]

I think that the Greek government should put all the little holiday islands on eBay and make some money that way.

[Nigello]

Greece blinked first. Great analysis from BBC's Mark Lowen, who said that PM realised he was riding high in the polls so pragmatically used his popularity as a buffer against widespread criticism of accommodation of what EU (Merkel etc) wanted. In doing so he might lose some supporters on the far-left but so be it.

[Loz]

Tsipras: "We kept Greece standing and dignified?.

I'd hate to see what he'd class as "pants down and embarrased".

[????]

Lefties in realising they can't beat basic mathematics shocker

[Otta]

Breaking news on bbc website.

24 February 2015 Last updated at 14:17

Eurozone 'backs Greece reform plans'

Eurozone approves Greek reform plans aimed at securing extension to bailout, officials say

That's all there is so far.

[????]

Robert P

Syriza appears to have transformed itself from what in the UK would be seen as traditional leftists into Blairites. In the reforms proposed by the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to secure a four-month extension of its life-or-death bailout, vanished are the party's seeming implacable hostility to privatisation, determination to re-hire sacked public-sector workers, and desire for rapid rises in minimum wages. Or to put it another way, the platform on which Syriza won the recent general election has been significantly reconstructed

can't defy maths, sorry my left wing friends

[StraferJack]

My maths teacher always told us " It's not the right answer I want to see, it's how you get there"

[Otta]

Not all left leaning people think that money grows on trees Quids.

[miga]

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[????]

Couldn't agree more, which is why it's best not to give them (or lend them) too much money in the first place :)

[alice]

http://www.cityam.com/210138/yanis-varoufakis-demolishes-jeroen-dijsselbloem-and-angela-merkel-awesome-rap-battle the man is a mathematical genius

[miga]

???? Wrote:

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> Couldn't agree more, which is why it's best not to

> give them (or lend them) too much money in the

> first place :)

I'm glad we agree both sides of politics are capable of corruption and deception, I was beginning to get the impression you think there's something inherently corrupt about one side of politics only. (Not getting into whether these two sides are even an accurate division anymore).

[????]

My 'problem' with the 'left' isn't corruption, it's mathematical incompetence....2+2 can only make 4, ever....whatever way and however well meaning you try and make it=5.

[????]

PS the truly incompetent, hilarious Greens being a prime example. Plus google where the only Green Council in the UK is on the list of recycling competency (hint it's not in the top 10...try the other end) for well meaning, middleclass twa*terry

[miga]

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[keekybreeks]

whack a mole on the EDF

[miga]

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[keekybreeks]

stimulus => response

conditioning theory basics

[miga]

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[keekybreeks]

im no poet

[Loz]

Not looking good for Greece at the moment. Even if Greece and the Troika strike a deal, the chances of it being ratified by parliament are small. Even a deal seems to be getting further away, looking at the latest "corrections" made to the last Greek proposal. As someone wrote, one of the main problems is the Troika want to see Excel spreadsheets, but the Greeks keep giving them Word documents.

Tsipras's strategy seems entirely based on the Troika blinking first, but I don't think that will happen. Perhaps the reality will set in next month when, not only do the Greek government have no money to pay the IMF, but also not enough to pay all the pensions they've tried desperately to protect.

But something better give, else we are going to see a massive humanitarian problem if Greece goes bust.

[Louisa]

The poor poor Greeks. I am totally behind their government. Why should the people of Greece be made to suffer by not receiving pensions amongst other benefits just so the country can pay off their debts to satisfy the EU. Stuff the EU. The people should come first.

Louisa.