UKIP’s Bedfordshire chairman George Konstantinidis welcomes Greece’s vote against bailout terms
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Posted: July 06, 2015
George Konstantinidis
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UKIP’s Bedfordshire chairman George Konstantinidis welcomed the ‘no’ vote in Greece’s referendum held yesterday.
This saw the country reject the terms of of an international bailout, which Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called ‘humiliating.’
Mr Konstantinidis, himself from the Greek capital Athens said: “It was a fantastic result for Greece, a huge rejection of blackmail from the EU and in particular Germany.
“The people were told the sky would turn red and the seas would turn black if they voted no, but they didn’t bow to the pressure.”
Those campaigning for a ‘yes’ vote warned that the vote could lead to Greece being kicked out of the Eurozone.
While he doesn’t think it will come to that, Mr Konstantinidis predicted that it will be an uncertain road ahead for both Greece and Europe, saying: “The EU has had plenty of opportunities to resolve the Greek financial problem and Europe will now have to look very carefully at this.
“Whatever has been loaned recently just goes to the banks or is used for other repayments, none of it actually goes to the people.
“It’s not viable, a manageable solution is needed or we’re going to have a similar situation every three months.”
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July 07 2015, 9:33AM
From what I am hearing, if we ran England like Greece runs its country we too would be in a very dark place right now. We Brits can’t hand down our pensions to our children as I understand the Greeks do. Ever been to Greece and have to pay cash for things??? Yep the first transaction may go through the till but the rest won’t…….. if you don’t put money into the tax system then you won’t have anything to take out and now they are paying the price. How do they think it is acceptable to take money from other countries who make cutbacks to stay afloat and then not repay it, why should we bail them out again when they haven’t done anything to help themselves?
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July 07 2015, 9:04AM
"a huge rejection of blackmail from the EU and in particular Germany" You weren’t saying that in 2001 when you stuck your greedy little paws out to the EU for a big wad of cash at low interest rates and blew the lot by the time the crash came in 2008. Greece mismanaged it’s own economy, now it’s crying about it – want out of the Euro ok go to China see if they’ll bail you out this time?
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