That the likes of Mr Yiacoumi are at least not planning to take to the streets is one piece of good news for George Papandreou, Greece’s beleaguered socialist prime minister, who now faces a major showdown with the unions to push the austerity measures through. But easy though it is to point the finger at the public sector, there is some truth to the chants in Syntagma Square that the rich, too, are to blame for emptying the national coffers. For far too long, Greece’s business elite – from doctors and lawyers through to wealthy shipping magnates – has got away with flagrant tax evasion, and many feel that the belt-tightening which the government now wants will only hit the lower classes.