So now a vote for Syriza, the stridently left-wing party, has been billed as a vote for the drachma. Despite the fact that all the main parties want to remain inside the single currency, the EU has decided to impose its own terms on GreeceвЂ™s election. SundayвЂ™s election has been cast across Europe as a referendum on GreeceвЂ™s membership of the single currency. It is the idea that this crisis is about the survival of the Euro. Like all the most dangerous ideas, it is both clueless and compelling. Now, in 2012, the miniature brain has finally had an idea. The EU, heralded for so long as the guarantor of democracy and prosperity, feeding its expiring body on the remnants of both. The story of 2008, adapted and retold for 2010.ДЇor two years the political elites of Europe вЂ“ both federal and national вЂ“ have gone out of their way to avoid these truths, whilst driving a brutal austerity agenda that is impoverishing millions across the continent. The single currency itself could no longer be sustained in its existing form. The banking sector debts of Ireland, Spain and the rest were insurmountable. There was no way that Greece was ever going to be able to repay such a mountain of debt. When the Eurozone debt crisis erupted two years ago, it was immediately apparent that the game was up. An oversized, inadaptable beast with savage teeth, a bad temper, useless arms and a miniature brain, thrashing wildly in all directions as it sinks inexorably to its death.

The European Union is now that wounded dinosaur. Because itвЂ™s a clichГ©, we forget that it can be true. The injured giant, thrashing wildly in all directions as it sinks inexorably to its death.

A thousand cuts 2012