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Tim Streater wrote:
In article , pamela
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On 16:22 22 Sep 2017, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , pamela
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Of course the UK imports more EU goods than the other way
around. However, the pro-EU states seem prepared to accept
this loss of income if it teaches the lesson that leavers, now
and in the future, will incur a financial cost based on
principle not logic.

Exactly as I quoted Yanis Varoufakis as having said on
BBCR4Today the other morning. He understands the ****ish
behaviour of the EU even if Remoaners here don't.

I didn't hear Varoufakisc on the radio but I do recall how
Varoufakis felt Greece was too big to fail and that Germany was
owed too much money to allow Greece to go bankrupt.

He said that their intransigent behaviour of the EU was because they
are scared of making leaving appear too easy and is "intended as a
warning to the riff-raff of the EU, such as Greece, Portugal, Spain,
...".

His words.

You put Spain and Portugal in the same economic state as Greece? Why not
Eire too?

But I take it buy your support for Varoufakis you approve of the way the
Greek economy is run?

Varoufakis was not in charge of the Greek economy when the problem was
allowed to happen

he was just in charge when a solution was being sought

and he is right

Leaving the Greek people in penury for 20 years, as an alternative to
simply forgoing the debt, is not going to get the rEU its money back

But it already has forced them to stop being as profligate
with borrowed money as they had been in the past.

Sooner or later they will realise that it has to be written off.

Yes, but they have already made a hell of a
difference to running up more and more debt.