In one of the myriad of European conflicts over history Edward III laid siege to Calais. The city was ordered to resist at all costs. Eventually the city was starved into submission and forced to parley for surrender. Edward agreed not to plunder the city if any six of its top leaders would sacrifice themselves, and walk out, wearing nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city and castle. Six burghers volunteered, stripped down to their breeches and appeared at the city gates. They expected to be executed but they were not.
This time the Burghers did not walk out. So, the voters in local elections in the U.K. reject the dogma of austerity, then Greece, then France... now what? The cabal of bankers, billionaires, Murdochs and elite politicians must admit that the game is up, that the citizens of democratic countries have been sufficiently informed and educated to understand that to pay for the profligacy of an elite class who believe in the cant that they know what is best and how the world works is neither ethical or necessary.
This is democracy. Let the people who must pay decide the price. Now is the time to see who really believes in democracy and who believes in control.
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