Oh oh, trouble in Portugal...

[cromwell]

Portugal's President has banned an alliance of Communists and anti-EU parties from taking power on the grounds that it "isn't in the national interest"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/econ ... power.html

Interesting times indeed. If they won the election, they should be the government.

[TheOstrich]

Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of euro rules and membership.

Out in the open, now .....

[Workingman]

500,000,000 of you can vote how you like, but we chosen few will decide what is best for you all.

Now get back to Strictly and X-Factor and leave us to sort things out.

[Suff]

There is real danger in that. Because when challenged that way directly the people have an odd habit of taking the choice out of the hands of people like the president.

Going to be interesting times ahead....

[Kaz]

Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of euro rules and membership.

Out in the open, now .....

Wow

[Kaz]

Now get back to Strictly and X-Factor and leave us to sort things out.

Bread and circuses, eh?

[Rodo]

"Democracy must take second place"


I don't think I have heard anything as chilling as that for many years.

[Kaz]

Nor me.......

[Workingman]

I have dug a bit deeper.....

Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of euro rules and membership.

Those are not the words of the Portuguese President, Anibal Cavaco Silva, they are from the author of the piece, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

Explaining why he had chosen the centre-right to form a government over a group of centre-left parties with no formal agreements between them he said:

"Out of the EU and the eurozone, Portugal's future would be catastrophic," Cavaco Silva said. He said Portugal risked losing what it had gained after four years of hard times.

"I have to tell the Portuguese that I fear a loss of confidence (in Portugal) by foreign institutions, our creditors, and investors in foreign markets. The confidence and the credibility of our country are essential for investment and job creation,"

He has done nothing more than the Queen would have done had Cameron fallen a few seats short of a majority.

[TheOstrich]

Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the Portuguese president had said that ..... but I still feel that quote sums up what is happening. The Queen would never interfere in politics like that.