John Ward February 14, 2015 EUROCRISIS: If you employ cocks like Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the chickens will come home to roost

EUROCRISIS: If you employ cocks like Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the chickens will come home to roost

Dijsselbloem: more ex-planetary than explanatory

INSIGHT TRACK: Developing stories and their significance

Greece. Syriza’s hand has been further strengthened by the news that their latest Poll rating stands at 45%…around 23% ahead of New Democracy and its leader, the Klown from Kalamata. So I don’t think we’ll be seeing any more robotic Opposition bloc voting for some time. But as you’d imagine, Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem doesn’t see it that way: cited by Reuters, he said that Greek voters’ expectations of their new government were “a mile high”.

France. Never underestimate the fiscal journalist’s inability to see the truck coming down the road. Various agencies reported yesterday afternoon that Germany is ‘surging ahead’ at 0.7% while France is struggling to stay upright at 0.1%. OK, I do live in France, but even so I have been posting about uncontrolled State expenditure, increasingly desperate retail sales, hugely anti-entrepreneurial bureaucracy, spiralling labour costs and shoddily-made, overpriced goods here for almost five years. As ever, the likes of Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem are “surprised” and “shocked” at the figures. Still, no doubt being a hairdresser, he doesn’t get much time off. I mean, he probably has to spend two hours a day under the drier just to keep his teasy-weasy-curly-wurly bouffant in condition.

Italy. 4% growth in 16 years – total – is a growth rate slower even than Greece, and yet that’s Italy’s overall performance since we all got saddled with the euro. And Italy didn’t even have any of that ‘help’ from the Troika so generously meted out to the Greeks. All the while, the Italian debt gets bigger, and the voters become more and more europhobic. In fact, if I may lapse momentarily into Dijsselbloeming, voter expectations of the euro are a Mile Low.

Spain. Spanish mortgage default evictions are running currently at 20,000 per annum….and rising. With every sign that the domino contagion effect is going to spread beyond Greek borders, the popularity of Leftist Party Podemos climbs steadily. Yesterday Prime Minister Rajoy expressed his “concern” at the thought of contagion…as well he might: for as well as that, he also has several potential localist splits on his hands.

Think of this as just a little more to tuck away into the “It was all going so well” file when the Day of Reckoning comes.

Yesterday at The Slog: The five pillars of wisdom about Greek debt

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John Ward – Analysis : If You’re A Genuine Believer In Functional Democracy, The Only Responsible Position Today Is That Of Radical Reformer – 15 February 2015 | Lucas 2012 Infos on February 15, 2015 at 10:59 pm

[…] a mutualist community…not the arid accountancy of community-destructive neoliberal globalism. Yesterday at The Slog: Why cocks like Dijsselbloem breed Chicken lickens http://www.hat4uk.wordpress.com / link to original […]

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InLooker on February 15, 2015 at 4:57 pm

It used to be the 64,00 DOLLAR question;but I don’t suppose you kids can remember that.I bet you also don’t remember cutting coupons from your ration books,booking your Christmas chicken & paying for it with weekly payments in advance,& finally seeing a banana.Damn!!.You youngsters just don’t know do you – YOU’VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD.(Or so often in the Profumo case).

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Lampitt on February 15, 2015 at 3:41 pm

Like to see how DeiselBoom gets on when he suggests a bail in for Dutch voters.

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John Ward – Eurocrisis : If You Employ Cocks Like Jeroen Dijsselbloem, The Chickens Will Come Home To Roost – 15 February 2015 | Lucas 2012 Infos on February 15, 2015 at 7:39 am

[…] http://www.hat4uk.wordpress.com / link to original article […]

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Harold Rosario on February 15, 2015 at 5:19 am

I hear that Krugman is making a new case for increased debt spending by governments. It appears that according to him that this action helps the creation of private wealth. What won’t he think of next!

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Caratacus on February 15, 2015 at 12:47 am

@ william – something along those lines … what I would say is that any christian feelings I may harbour regarding that particular son-of-the-manse evaporated when I see pensioners helplessly having to choose between heating and eating. He is responsible for more human misery than many and will not be forgotten as such.

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william on February 14, 2015 at 9:39 pm

@ C. Do you mean he is not just physically incontinent, but also the man responsible for the laxative,’QE’, which has made asset owners rich for doing nothing?

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Caratacus on February 14, 2015 at 9:20 pm

william – I’m so sorry but the colossus to whom you refer is busily counting his money and will not be available for a wee while yet. I also understand that nappies and pull-ups in his particular size are rather thin on the ground at the moment and limit the radius beyond which he is able to roam …

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Garry is that you? on February 14, 2015 at 9:19 pm

Like the sarcasm.

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william on February 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm

The situations in Greece , France, Italy and Spain are crying out for talismanic leadership, akin to the man that saved the entire Western world in 2008. This political and economic colossus, is I understand, now in retirement on the East coast of Scotland, and eager for new challenges….

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Caratacus on February 14, 2015 at 7:37 pm

Here is as fine an example of one of the reasons I like John’s site so much – here is a little tale from a respected commenter that is going to have me thinking for a day or two. Thank you, IP :-)

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Rogerio Moreira (@vessaray1) on February 14, 2015 at 7:33 pm

Yes, getting education, the “learning curve” it’s the best investment.
Everytime you do not educate yourself, you’ll get even more poor, every day in any industry.

http://buildingabrandonline.com/NEEDNOLEARNINGCURVE/observe-the-masses-do-the-opposite-starting-today/

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angelteuton on February 14, 2015 at 6:17 pm

Do Not “Diss” Mr ” Bloom” Mr ” Lee. …… ”

You are just jealous because whilst his hair may be receding and yours is still relatively florid (on the basis you seldom cut it) his locks are fertility black whilst yours have settled into an impoent white.

Indeed you may see me getting quite flirtatious with Mister D in the coming meetings as ( embarassed as I am to admit it ) he is beginning to float my teutonic boat and I have decided to set my Aryan cap at him in the brazen manner of a Swabyan hussey . Watch this space meine sehr gehrte Englander ….

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John McClane on February 14, 2015 at 6:00 pm

So many fans, so much shit, so little time.

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GrahamD on February 14, 2015 at 5:51 pm

Dijsselbloem and the Sprouts face the one thing in the next couple of years that they really cannot control…National Elections….and whether they try to bully Greece, or give in to Greece, or Greece is thrown out of the EZ, or Greece walks away….IMHO, they are gonna be stuffed whatever ! Have a look at these dates…. Next General Election in :

Finland April 15 (The True Finns could gain a lot if the Greek situation is badly handled by then),
UK May 15 (Likelyhood of a hung parliament that could go any way…..possibility of UK referendum)
Portugal Oct 15 (Lets keep an eye on the Portuguese Socialist Party if Syriza get anywhere in negotiations)
Spain Dec 15 (‘Nuff said by JW above !)

Then there is Ireland in April 16 as an hors-d’oeuvre for the rise of Marine Le Pen in France in Apr 17.

…..assuming the EZ lasts that long or Germany has not taken fright and done a runner, or there is still an EU for the UK to have a referendum about, by then. Can the EU survive without the Euro remains the unspoken €64,000 question !

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ken from glos on February 14, 2015 at 2:47 pm

ahhh good old DeisalBloom the idiot that jumped up and down with great delight saying,,We have found zee Template ,, after raping the ordinary saver in Cyprus . How do these scum thrive ?

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Impoverished Psychologist on February 14, 2015 at 2:03 pm

I think these Eunatics must be operating in a variety of delusional states. I think most simply do not understand the inherent fraud in the fiat/fractional reserve charade and therefore cannot think beyond the economic box they inhabit. Worse, some probably know exactly how this paradigm works but rely on the fact that most people ‘on the street’ do not and therefore can be relied upon to toil at jobs they hate in order to scrape a paltry marginal return on their labour to invest in their ultra low carbon eco-new build Barratt blockhouse.

My old headmaster was big on his Christian homilies, he told a story of four blind beggars who had spent the day begging and returned at night with some basic provisions, they agreed to pool their resources and add all the food to a stew. However each one decides to withhold their contribution from the stewpot so they can consume it later themselves. Of course they all end up with a bowl of steam each….

Everyone expects everyone else to contribute, the fact is that at some point someone has to do some work, we can’t all sit at a screen looking at graphs, the quicker this lesson is learnt by all the better.

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jdseanjd on February 14, 2015 at 1:10 pm

Reality gets binned in room 101 in EU Orwell world.
Make that the entire mad Western World.

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