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Think Stoke Newington in London. Edgy, lefty but with a stack of affluent middle class Guardian readers among the poor. That’s the sort of neighbourhood of Athens in which I am staying. Everywhere there are Oxi posters – this area is voting No heavily in the referendum on Sunday. Even the businesses display posters – they are not afraid of losing customers because this area is heavily Oxi. One poster (see below) says nothing but says it all.
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Alex
Tom, I agree with your assessment of the previous Greek administrations but not for your advocation of a NO vote, which, I believe, will send Greece into a spiral of disaster for many years to come. The Eurogroup, whether they admit it or not, recognise along with the IMF that Greece can only stay in the Euro if it has a significant proportion of its debt written off. But they will never offer this to Syrizia, who they reason will never implement structural reform, which is badly needed in Greece irrespective of whether they are in our out of the Euro. They will only offer this to an administration that is capable of reforming tax, oligopolies, corruption, etc. Outside of the European Club Greece will perpetually fail.