Moderator: Peak Moderation
More money for nothing, please!Another finding in a recent opinion poll, which will doubtlessly worry creditors, is that seven out of 10 Greeks want to remain in the eurozone but without austerity. The survey by polling firm MRB for Real News found that 66 percent of respondents do not want Greece to return to the drachma but also oppose the austerity measures imposed by creditors in return for foreign loans. T
The latter is a self-perpetuating problem. You can't just blame it on the existing teachers.kenneal - lagger wrote:Shows just how many people are living in cloud cuckoo land in Greece. We have a few equivalents: the people who turn down a job because they are better off on benefits: public servants who think their pensions are affordable by the rest of us: teachers who think they are doing a great job when there are job vacancies in the country which can't be filled because our school leavers don't have the right qualifications or attitude. I could go on.
Not sure this is cloud-cuckoo land, so much as that some people are above the law.woodpecker wrote:There are many kinds of cuckoo land. Like the project manager/professional who was working for a local authority, and whose work was 'connected' to the deaths of several people. On gardening leave on full pay years later, with no sign of the situation being brought to any conclusion...
To be fair, that's not usually the fault of the teachers. It is the fault of the people who designed the system. If there aren't enough carpenters being produced in the UK (and there aren't) then there is something wrong with the way we decide what to teach. As for the attitude problems - those are a reflection of society in general and the teachers have had their hands tied by changes to the law which placed all the real power in the hands of the children.kenneal - lagger wrote: teachers who think they are doing a great job when there are job vacancies in the country which can't be filled because our school leavers don't have the right qualifications or attitude. I could go on.
The Guardian - 01/05/12
Eurozone crisis live: May Day austerity protests in Greece; Venizelos warns euro membership at risk.
Pasok leader has told the Guardian that upcoming election is Greece's biggest challenge since military junta was overturned in 1974.
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Greek main parties 'suffer big losses' at polls
Exit polls in the Greek parliamentary election suggest the two main parties have suffered big losses.
The polls, televised across Greece, put the centre-right New Democracy party in the lead with 17-20% of the vote.
Syriza, a coalition of left-wing parties, is put just in second place with centre-left Pasok third.
They can all give him a salute as the ship goes downbiffvernon wrote:Still, better to have a nice bloke at the helm than a nasty one.
Maybe that is what the French people think but as my WSWS link shows, it is a total fraud.biffvernon wrote:Meanwhile the French have decided to give up on Austerity and go for Growth.
I wonder what with.
So it looks like public tolerance for EU cuts has finally collapsed in Greece... will they get further bailouts? Will Greece survive in the eurozone.Governing parties backing EU-mandated austerity in Greece are on course for a major drubbing as hard-hit voters, venting their fury in elections, defected in droves, according to exit polls.
In a major upset that will not be welcomed by the crisis-plagued country's eurozone partners, the two forces that had agreed to enact unpopular belt-tightening in return for rescue funds appeared headed for a beating, with none being able to form a government.
After nearly 40 years of dominating the Greek political scene, the centre-right New Democracy and socialist Pasok saw support drop dramatically in favour of parties that had virulently opposed the tough austerity dictated by international creditors.
The latest figures showed New Democracy leading with between 19 – 20.5% of the vote, followed by the radical leftist party, Syriza, with as much as 17% and socialist party Pasok with between 13 – 14 %. And for the first time since the collapse of military rule, ultra-nationalists were also set to enter parliament with polls showing the neo-Nazi Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) capturing as much as 8%.
