Wholly delusional. This guy is a couple of years older than me but graduated later than me from the LSE. He is not real smart. No wonder, Greece is in so parlous a condition.



It is surprising that so 'educated' and 'civilized' a writer should indulge in such shameful schadenfreude.



Greece is tiny. It is a self-confessed cheat and liar. It threatened a Referendum and got a bailout and then had a Referendum and got kicked in the goolies. It is a ship of fools. Why not simply invade Smyrna or North Cyprus? Greek parochial idiocy is only now relaxing towards to Macedonia. Meanwhile a lot of businesses emigrated to Bulgaria. But bigger players are here in London and in London they will remain because, unlike this author, they understand real world Economics.



The 'Troika' had to give 'tough love' to Greece because its politicians were liars, cheats, and narcissistic fabulists.



By contrast, the UK has always paid its bills. Britain, by reason of its history, is part of a great Commonwealth- English is the language of the World.



The UK is and will remain a very wealthy country- at least in those parts which have always been wealthy.



Greece will get poorer though it has very smart people because of its penchant for self-sabotage. Its wealth and talent off-shored itself long ago. Haircuts affect the Greek barber- not the Hellene on the Baltic Exchange.



Greek entrepreneurs relocate to London because of the horrible type of Governance and anti-business ethos of the current regime. There are Greek origin entrepreneurs who have tried to do start ups under Syriza. Even well-connected people come back whipped by the unrelenting idiocy of the Greek bureaucratic ethos.



What is wrong with Greek intellectuals? Why do they think there is any correlation between the UK, which will survive the suicide of the European Project, and their own tiny little country which has only now stopped being a dick about Macedonia? That's right. Greece is a parochial little Balkan Nation where, in Psyhicko, the Albanian pool-guy or landscape gardener speaks better English and is smarter than his Employer.



The Greeks are licking their lips at some disaster that will befall Britain. Sorry! It won't happen. We have a floating exchange rate. We've already taken a hit on our Wealth and Real Exchange Rate. We can deter migrants quite easily. Athens can't. It has sold out to the Chinese. Those guys will prefer to deal with Pakistanis and Somalis and Iranians. The native Greeks will get disintermediated. They can go on talking about being the cradle of Democracy- though Plato and Aristotle condemned that form of Government. Meanwhile, Greece will be a Chinese proxy. The Albanians in Greece, already the smartest set, will rediscover Enver Hoxha. Greece will go the way of Egypt under Albanian leadership. What good will their inflated Defense budget do?



Greece latched on to the Euro teat believing in the Milk of Human Kindness. By contrast, Europe needed London- not Dublin. Even Dublin needs London more than Brussels. We don't want to say it, but we can crush Ireland- backstop be damned. It is ludicrous to think otherwise.



Britain can take a short term fall of twenty or even thirty percent in real exchange rates and entitlements for older people. Greece inflicted bigger haircuts on its own vulnerable people. Why is this man indulging in such naked schadenfreude here? This is not a civilized way to behave. It is also very very foolish. May is coming. The Euro elections will result in the Northern bloc resiling from feckless Southerners- whose kids, however, are great immigrants. Unlike Japan, Europe has no mechanism to pay back the country which exports high quality young people.



This gentleman speaks of the 'Greek saga'- like it was something scripted by Aeschylus or Sophocles. The truth is known to all. Greek public intellectuals were liars, cheats and fantasists. They were more comfortable in London or Toronto or Stockholm than in their own country.



The EU can be blackmailed. Without the British nuclear deterrent, Germany is at the mercy of France. By contrast, the UK can't be blackmailed. It can squeeze Ireland out of the EU. It can hurt France and the Benelux and Germany till they cry Uncle and decide to ditch the South.



As for the Visegrad countries, they are Britain's natural allies. Greece meanwhile can discover what it means to be in hock to the Chinese. Their doom is sealed.