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GREECE’S PRIME MINISTER wants his country’s citizens to vote ‘No’ in the upcoming referendum on accepting new bailout terms from the troika – despite his government yesterday saying it would agree a deal.
In a televised address to the money-starved nation, Alexis Tsipras said the country would still hold the poll despite the last-ditch attempt at negotiations.
He denied that a ‘No’ vote on creditors’ proposals – which included pension cuts his anti-austerity government has said it wasn’t willing to accept – meant the country would also be voting itself out of Europe.
A ‘No’ vote does not signify a rupture with Europe, but a return to the Europe of values,” he said.
Tsipras said coming down against creditors at the referendum would put the troika under “great pressure” to keep negotiating and that would make the vote a “decisive step for a better deal”.
He added that Greece would continue to negotiate with its international creditors and some “better proposals” that involved a debt restructure had been put forward.
Bookies Paddy Power have already paid on a weekend ‘Yes’ vote, adding on Twitter that its traders clearly thought the outcome was a “foregone conclusion”.
That was despite a poll on the referendum showing a lead for the ‘No’ campaign.
Deal or no deal?
It comes after Tsipras wrote a letter to troika chiefs yesterday in which he set out some proposed “amendments” to the deal on the table in order to secure a third, €29 billion bailout.
They included keeping a discount VAT rate on the Greek islands and postponing the introduction of pension changes. The Greek government has rejected suggestions the offer represented a capitulation to the creditors’ demands.
Germany has already slapped away the approach with Chancellor Angela Merkel saying her country would “calmly” wait on the referendum result.
The world is watching us … but the future of Europe is not at stake,” she told the parliament.
Greece has received €240 million in two bailouts and the latest deal would also unlock the last tranche of cash due under the second agreement.
It became the first developed country to miss a bailout repayment to the IMF late yesterday when it couldn’t come up with the €1.6 billion that fell due.
With reporting from AFP
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Like what other option do you have with some people who are violent to the extent they can’t be around people… Is doping them out of there head non stop any better
As long as you are aware that the prescribed psychoactive drugs they pump into people can also increase the risk of violence. Here is a forensic Psychaitrist from Australia.
Adverse Reactions to Psychiatric Drugs: Yolande Lucire MBBS, Peter Breggin MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEoSs6Yo0DA
Prof David Healy and Dr Peter Breggin also do great work in getting the truth out about these drugs.
This is seriously unfair and insulting to psychiatric nurses, a profession which has many wonderful, hard-working people.
Restraining is for everyone’s safety. Bonkers attitude
More shit from people completely put of touch with the reality, this would be fantastic if psychiatric nurses didn’t have to restrain seclude or even medicate at that, but unfortunately we live in reality where sometimes people with mental health issuers are aggressive and violent, as long as this happens restraint and seclusion will be a necessity, the alternative is high doses of sedatives ??? Which would you choose
The mental health commission obviously dont have a clue what they are talking about!
Its the same in nursing homes we recently had an issue with my mother after a fall..not her first..and were told she couldn’t be strapped into a chair because its too restricting even though it would be for her own safety.
Isn’t it important to look at if restraint actually works/helps people recover? It should be a last resort. This blog from someone on the damage restraint did to her is interesting: http://www.mind.org.uk/blog/9010_i_needed_help_not_harm?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social+media&utm_campaign=Restraint
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