How to Save the Greek Economy

Here in the UK the last two weeks have been a blessed respite from real life.

Thanks to the London 2012 Olympics there has been almost nothing on the news apart from Danny Boyle, Bradley Wiggins, Andy Murray, Jessica Ennis, Nicola Adams, Charlotte du Jardin, Mo Farah etc etc….

No news is good news, as they say.



The Queen Arrives at the Olympic Opening Ceremony



It may have been the worst and wettest British summer since records began, but the clouds parted and it stopped raining just long enough for Her Majesty the Queen to be helicoptered in to the Opening Ceremony, and for Team GB to put in a fantastic, inspiring athletic performance, picking up a record-breaking haul of medals in the process, many of them gold.       

  

Meanwhile, back in the real world, life has apparently been going on as usual.

Bankers are still under investigation for fiddling the Libor Rate and money laundering, to name but two recent scandals.  As Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, put it in Translating the British, 2012,

We've had our pockets picked,
 the soft, white hands of bankers,
bold as brass, filching our gold, our silver;
we want it back.





The world is still in recession, the Eurozone is still in financial crisis, and Greece is still in financial meltdown.  What to do about it?  

Easy.  Just slip Vangelis a few quid for every time the Chariots of Fire music was played at an Olympic medal ceremony.  With a total of around three hundred medal ceremonies over the last sixteen days, he may just have done enough to save the Greek economy, single-handed.  Give that man a medal!