Time
for our Memorial Day Christine Special.
For
those of you who cannot get enough of Christine this lovely holiday of unbroken
Sonnenschein in California and a heatwave (phew what’a scorcher) in the UK here
are some delightful photos of the éminence grise elle-même; avec et sans
foulard. Une trés belle Pêcheure des Perles.
In
this installment of Euro-Tragedy, she’s chewing up and spitting out Greeks for
their congenital inability to find a tax demand they like. It may be better for
Ms. Largarde’s security that she eschews the Diogenes wander around Athens as
there are reported to be 10,000 Greeks angry at her effrontery in chastising
their manhood and propensity to pay taxes. Can there be 10,000 in Greece who
pay all their taxes? Better Christine writes a billet doux to her friend little
tax-cheater Geithner c/o US Treasury and check that he’s up to date with the
IRS. Clearly the Greeks find Christine less than disarming and charming.
Evangelos
(the Evangelist?) Venizelos, (PASOK Socialist party leader, ex finance minister
and fat man), fresh from helping Papandreou drive the Greek state into the
ditch and trailing badly in the polls for the Greek election (Round 2) says
Christine has insulted the Greek people. Quel horreur! The Greeks had better
not elect fat man Vangy as PM post Round 2 (will there be a Round 3?), or he’ll
be fearfully embarrassed having to sit down cap in hand with Christine at the
IMF later in June.
Well,
I hope Christine is enjoying her well earned Memorial Day holiday rest before
she returns tomorrow to the all-important job of saving the Greeks from
themselves and the Spanish state from following Greece into the ditch. Is she
reflecting on the possibility that the Euro might not have been such a good
idea after all, and maybe, just maybe, she should show her independence and
intellect by taking the Friedmanite line; especially now her marionette master,
little Psychozy, is safely in the arms of Carla in one of the King of Morocco’s
palaces and nowhere near l’Élysée? Maybe she should float the idea to that
other ravishing Euro-Pol, Frau Angela of Berlin, that the Germans might want to
float up, up and away from the Euro with the Deuro perhaps (along with their
friends the Finns and the Dutch) and leave the world to darkness and to
Hollande. That would put the BuBankers into a new form of Angst, Sturm und
Drang.
Just
a reminder you can tune into my blog – where all these rantings are now posted
for posterity at http://imeffed.blogspot.com/
Your comments would be very welcome, but please – just don’t insult the Greeks.
That’s Christine’s job.
Simon
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