48m ago
08:21
Syriza MP: We've won a poisoned chalice
Yanis Varoufakis, a Syriza MP who is tipped to become Greece’s next finance minister, is being interviewed on the BBC’s Today Programme now.
Congratulated on Syriza’s success, Varoufakis replies soberly that:
It’s a poisoned chalice, but I accept your congratulations.
He says Greece has been suffering since authorities decided to “pile the burden on the weakest shoulders”, forcing the country into a slump.
It takes an eight or nine year old to understand this, Varoufakis says, adding:
Fiscal waterboarding has turned us into a debt colony.
But what about the ‘glimmer of light’ recently, when Greece’s recession ended?
Varoufakis dismisses this idea. Prices and income are both falling, he say, which is “a typical case of a Great Depression -- and Europe decided to call it a glimmer of light”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/26/greece-election-syriza-victory-alexis-tsipras-coalition-talks-live-updates