The Two Faces of Europe!

By Peter Mills. The smiling and benign mask of the European Union has slipped. It was the Greeks who famously used two masks in their ancient open-air theatres to permit actors to express the bountiful smile of goodness or the twisted snarl of evil, and today it is the Greeks who have made the ruling dictatorship of Europe reveal the true corrupt snarling evil that lurks in disguise behind their smiling public face!

It was also the Greeks whose ancient language gave the civilizations of the whole world what is, quite possibly, their most valuable and important word – democracy. And now it is the Greeks who may, if allowed, hold a public vote, a referendum which allows the ordinary citizens of their country to decide for themselves whether they wish to accept the horrific punishment the European Union and many within their own parliament propose to inflict upon them now that the EU is stumbling.

The ordinary people of other countries should take note, especially Britain whose wretched sniveling government is of course absolutely terrified of allowing its citizens the democratic right of a referendum on membership of the EU. The Greek prime minister George Papandreou, however, has such a small majority in parliament that he felt quite rightly obliged to seek the backing of voters when the EU – principally Germany and its pet poodle France – sought to impose such heavy penalties upon the ordinary Greek citizen that it may well transform the recent spate of riots into a violent revolution. Indeed, Mr. Papandreou’s majority was further cut to just two yesterday when one of the MPs of his Pasok party resigned over the issue. Six other members of the party have so far called for his resignation.

Sinisterly, Germany and France have ignored any acknowledgement of the word “referendum” in their response to the crisis, issuing today an abrupt joint statement that “…France and Germany are determined to ensure the full implementation, in the quickest time frame, of the decisions adopted at the summit.”

So what are these measures which the European dictatorship is determined to impose on the Greek people, and which it is so determined to stop the threat of applied principles of democracy from derailing? What price does continued membership of the EU threaten to cost the ordinary Greek citizen? Why are the Greek people so upset about it? Can any measures be that bad? Judge for yourself.

The European dictators had agreed a few days ago to loan 100 billion euros (that is, £86 billion) to Greece, plus agree a 50% write-off of the nation’s debts, to enable the country to simply repay the installments on its incredible debt burden. Of course, this is much like you yourself having a mortgage of £50,000 and, because you cannot meet the monthly repayments, the building society says it will force you to borrow a further £50 thousand from which you can make the repayments – but of course, the amount of the repayments will double.

Would you consider yourself fortunate to be required to accept such a deal? The most obvious result would be that you would have to drastically cut your household expenditure. Instead of spending perhaps £60 or £70 a week at the supermarket to feed and clothe your family, you would have to cut the amount to £6 or £7 – and you would have to live like that for thirty or forty years until the mortgage was paid up!

The “deal” being offered to the Greek people is similar in nature, but on a national scale. Let’s have a look at the nitty-gritty details of this “compulsory European membership fee”, and then we can more readily understand why the Greek prime minister feels that he cannot dump it on his people without giving them a vote on the issue. In return for the European deal, the Greek people will face:-

Cutting £12.8 billion (14.32 billion euros) from public spending and raising some £12 billion (14.09 billion euros) over the next 5 years. All wage bargaining will be suspended making it much easier for firms to cut their payroll costs. The income tax starting threshold lowered from 8,000 euros to 5,000 (£6,873 to £4,296)

A further 30,000 public sector workers suspended on 60% pay and then being laid-off completely after 1 year. Pensions over 1,000 euros to be cut by 20% on everything over that threshold. 700,000 government sector workers forced to accept reduced pay and promotion. All public sector wages to be cut by 20%.

A new additional income tax levy of from 1% to 5% of income to be imposed on all households, which will be further increased at least twice in 2012. Higher property taxes. VAT to rise from the present 19% to 23% (lower rated items rising from 11% to 13% and 5.5% to 6.5%). Certain tax exemptions to be abolished. Duty on petrol and pump fuel, tobacco and alcohol to increase unbelievably by 33.33%.

Successful businesses making over a certain amount of profit must pay a special penalizing levy. So must owners of any property over a certain value, and anyone whose income is judged as “high” must also pay a special penalising levy in addition to all income tax. All other property taxes will increase across the board.

Workers for state-owned enterprises will have their wages cut by one-third. 1,976 schools will be closed, their staff fired. The health budget will be cut by 310 million euros by the end of this year alone, and by a further 1.81 billion euros by the end of 2015. Social security payments will be cut by 1.09 billion euros by the end of this year, by a further 1.28 billion euros next year, a further 1.03 billion euros in 2013, 1.01 billion in 2014, and 700 million in 2015. As millions more join the unemployed, benefits will be cut and means-testing greatly increased.

All pensions over 1,000 euros per month will be cut by 20%. Anyone under 55 who has already retired will forfeit almost half (40%) of their pension above a 1000 euro monthly ceiling. Retirement age is to be raised. A requirement of 40 years of work and corresponding pension contributions will be necessary to claim a full pension.

The Greek government will also be obliged to raise a further 50 billion euros by “selling the family silver” – that is, selling its stakes in large businesses including Hellenic Postbank and the Piraues and Thessaloniki commercial ports, 10% of Hellenic Telecom, Athens Water, Hellenic Petroleum, PPC Electricity, ATEbanks and other businesses wholly or partly owned by the state.

(Source of information: Greek Ministry of Finance Economic Policy Programme Newsletter.)

Understanding all this, it is also understandable that the introduction of such severe economic repression on a country’s entire population may even trigger a violent revolution: there have already been strikes and riots caused by lesser measures.

It is perfectly right for a prime minister to give the ordinary people a chance to freely vote on whether or not they wish to accept such a staggeringly oppressive period of hardship and misery as the price for belonging to the European Dictatorship. Naturally, the European dictators will do anything within their (considerable) power to squash this last vestige of democracy in Greece as quickly and ruthlessly as they can.

In Britain, we must consider ourselves warned. Our prime ministers will not even entertain the notion of permitting the population a democratic referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union. This is proven fact.

When we look at the dire position which Greece has been placed into by the threats and  today, we should borrow a phrase we used to see on film billboards:- “Coming soon to a country near you!” Perhaps very near you indeed. Perhaps our country. Perhaps we need to increase pressure on our pathetic government to allow us the long-promised referendum on Europe!

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7 Comments

  1. I guess we’ll soon be sending in the troops to liberate the people of Greece from Papandreou! Under the guise of a ‘Greek Autumn’.
    I note the press hacks are calling this decision by Papandreou a mistake and it will backfire etc etc, but the real point as you say is that the people are being given the chance of democracy. Who would you trust to arrive at the right decision for the people, an unelected Sarkozy and Merkel or millions of ordinary Greeks feeling the pain of what’s being done to them?
    I have to say that despite the problems of a potentially collapsing euro/eu and the repercussions it may have for for us, I am enjoying every second of it!.

  2. And slowly but surely we are heading to war. Germany and its pet poodle France. Lets be realistic this is spiraling out of control.

  3. Will this be the first use of the NWO, army by sending E.U. troops into Greece to ‘restore’ order when they vote NO and the overlords will not accept this.result?

    Or will it be another Ireland game, keep on voting till you get it ‘right’.then we stop having the vote.

  4. “…especially Britain whose wretched sniveling government is of course absolutely terrified of allowing its citizens the democratic right of a referendum on membership of the EU.”

    Only until the indigenous have been replaced with new, more compliant citizens from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Africa, with all the benefits of “Affirmative Action” available to them. Then we will have a referendum.

    The EU dictators are electing a new electorate, as we have all already rejected them in the few referendums that did take place in France and Ireland.

    High Treason and International Gerrymandering – bring the ropes to Traitors Gate.

  5. The British army has at it’s disposal 350 heavy tanks. Germany has 3,000. Why is this, what are they for ? If there is another conflict we must ensure we are on the right side this time and not suckered into another treaty with a vunerable country as we did in 1939 with Poland.
    The wars we are invloved in are not to directly advance the wealth of the UK. If we are to fight wars then this must be the criteria.

    • You are right Roger, this is very sinister. No government likes to do anything expensive unless it thinks it has a good reason, so what, I wonder, does Germany consider to be a good reason for maintaining such a large fleet of tanks? The main tank the German army now deploys is the Leopard 2 designed in the early 1970s by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. to oppose the Soviet Union’s T62, which is no longer a threat. The Leopard 2 costs £2,182,950 each to buy (obviously less in previous years, but an equivalent amount related to the prices of the day) and each one costs approximately £1,000 per week merely to keep in an army garage, as if they are left for more than a few weeks without being run, their bearings tend to gum up. If you want a conspiracy theory, consider this – the Leopard 2 is now in service with the armies of Austria, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Spain. Finland is buying 124 and Poland 128. Cash-strapped Portugal purchased 37 Leopards between 2007 and 2009. What, I cannot help wondering, is the European Union expecting? Probably, the tanks are insurance against a massive Europe-wide people’s revolution against the Union.

  6. i know this is kinda offtopic, but, bear with me please ??
    here in Denmark, a referendum is definitely ALSO a MUST have .. .. alas, we have the same FAIL politician’s as Our Siblings in the UK .. .. problem is, we VOTE for them for Our parliament, as well as the Brits do THEIRs .. .. what saddens me the most is, while the Euro WAS a good idea, it was “implemented” like 3 or 4 Centuries, TOO late .. .. also, tax evasion in Europe, it would seem, is at a PREMIUM, and RISING ..

    imo, let the FAIL “common currency” perish now,, and this can ONLY go too slow .. ..
    we in Denmark MUST bear Our part of the Blame .. .. a Danish SOCALLED Economics
    professor WAS one of the Architects of this misery .. .. i hang my head in SHAME .. ..

    thanks for a nice website, always providing a “few” Good Laughs here
    .

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