I'm inclined to Watch Greece Closely

I start here, listening and watching very carefully:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13989571


Granted it's three weeks out of date. But even now European Leaders still are not making a provision for Greece or any other country to leave the Euro. This must be the ultimate solution.


Our Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is still hooked into a  more prosperous Britain and Europe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14241345


But does the average Greek agree?


"We, the Greeks, are not accepting reality"


This report from last Friday suggests that Greeks will not accept the requirements that their government must try tries imposed on them:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14251856


Action being taken at the moment by Greek Taxi drivers appears to support this:

Greece taxi strike hits tourists on Crete and Corfu

A comment made  by Peter Marshall during his talk "The Good Life" at the Lantern House on Thursday evening pointed out a different reality.

 He said that there was a resurgence of people in Greece working together, first as individuals then as larger and larger groups to challenge a top down society where decisions are made by people at the top and imposing them on those at the bottom.

This sounds admirable but logically leads to the conclusion that Greek will want to escape from the Euro and run its country with values that the people choose and not those imposed from outside.

 Not all the people in other countries share the philosophy being expounded by Nick Clegg above that what we want is to become more and more prosperous. What happens when large numbers in a country see other values as important - Fairness for instance.

 There's a queue of other countries that may wish to follow Greece if they opt out:

Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

Could we become one of them - by choice?

Surely different people have different values and may not want to follow a common route. 

With our close links with Ireland , where will this leave us?

 Could it be that we decide to move towards becoming a third world country and abandon the race to become prosperous and devalue our currency and our dependence onWall Street being a world financial centre?

Life is becoming complicated and I suggest we need to re-evaluate what is important to us. 

Trying to find what Greeks themselves believe I came across  this written in June :

 A plea to restore the Drachma

Which starts:

"We write to encourage you – to urge you on in your resistance.

In your defiance, you understand Greece is slave to the interests of private wealth.

You must understand too that it is private wealth that needs Greece. Greece does not need private wealth."