The Greek fella on Question Time

Hardly surprising.

This is the gentleman who watched his country brought to its knees by the EU yet went around in craven fashion telling Brits to remain.

His comment on Question Time about Greece having benefited from the million migrants it received after the fall of the iron curtain was laughable.
Obviously no longer lives in Greece.

Yanis varoufakis a comrade and a hero to the Greek people

Wildman nails it.

This is one of the smooth talking berks who caused so much misery to the Greek population.
He's a typical top politician who could charm the birds from the trees, but couldn't run a whelk stall.
He should be in jail for sheer incompetence.

Lefties judge people by their words not their actions - that's why they love this fella

Righties judge people by their actions not their words - that's why they know he's a guess up merchant

By that judgement anxious you'd be the darling of the right.

Surprised this lot on here havn't said ken clarke is let wing after last nights debate as well,gone up in my estimations!!

Clarke is certainly a survivor.

Yet amazingly he still believes that the UK should be in the single currency.

Anyone who continues to argue for something that has clearly failed, and won't accept that they're wrong is not to be trusted.

I would like to make something clear. I have never been a member of any political party and my vote is always open to persuasion but if this man led my country I would follow him to the gates of hell. I would just put my total trust in him if he said something was right and I had no knowlefge if it was r not. His word would be good enough for me.

Did the fact that Greece has the EU's highest per hectare hand outs for farm land owners get a mention?
And that it is the EU country which is most at risk of not being able to feed its city dwellers in three years time.

Or the remarkable correlation between the budget cuts for the Greek Ministries of Tourism and Antiquities, and the increase in tourism and people taking an interest in the country's history.

I doubt it some how.

That's the problem with Varoufakis - a Greek who doesn't even know the important features of his statist obsessed homeland. Probably thinks it's right for that Greek health commissioner fella to be regulating e-cigs in the UK ( this is true! ).

Well on 23rd June, we told people who think ever bigger government numpties on £150k a year who are looking for ways to run our lives to feck off over the hills. Bravo to the people of the UK.

It's so strange to see grown men swooning over this guy - it's like Brokeback Mountain meets Shirley Valentine. Sure he seems a nice enough fella but are you listening to what he actually says? 'We're a far better and stronger country' for taking in over a million migrants is simply false isn't it? Surely Greece is in a far worse state today than after the fall of the iron curtain so how is the country 'far stronger and better'. It's possible they would be in an even worse situation without these people but I doubt he could back up his claim.

His mask slipped a few times when talking about Brexit and the people who voted for it - and he's one of these crushingly naive people who believe you can reform it from within - if it wont reform to stop one of its largest contributors from leaving why the hell would it if we'd voted to stay?

Having said that he seems quite likeable, but trust him implicitly? Paddletoe would follow him to 'the gates of hell' - I suppose that could come true.

didn't see the programme but did anyone ask him how Greece was a far stronger and better country for taking in a million migrants?

how has this worked in theory and in practice, what are the principles behind how it might work in theory, and what is the evidence in practice as to how it has worked. where are his figures that have made this clear.
did he provide any facts, was he asked to do so? I love and honour facts.

perhaps paddletoe will explain it to us.

no explanation from melv there, perhaps paddletoe can do better.

you see its like this, when autumn comes the leaves fall from the tree.
that is a fact.

now to say that immigrants create growth and wealth for all, is that a fact? I don't know I have not observed it.
cosmopolitan cities are the most creative and wealthy? I don't know.
what does London create now, how creative was it in the past compared to now, who were its great people, it great scientists, its great musicians, its great writers.
do you know that Isacc Newton came fro Cambridge 400 years ago?

when an apple falls from the tree that is because of gravity, newton taught us that and had the formulas to prove it.

that is a fact.

Could it be that people follow wealth and don't create it? Of course some people do, but these gifted people are very rare. Almost all of us could be replaced by a hundred or a thousand others. And then who have been these few exceptional people?
Well most of them have been English, who would deny that?

London isn't wealthy. The residents of the crescent of counties from Norfolk/Suffolk round to Hampshire are the creative and wealthy powerhouse of England.

In the USA the wealthiest states by PPP per head are no longer cosmopolitan New York and California but more homogeneous Texas and Kansas, but that's in part due to liberal planning laws which reduce housing costs.

But overall hundreds of researchers have tried to prove empirically that racially and religiously diverse societies are richer, and they haven't found a shred of evidence to back that. There's no conclusive evidence the other way either. So the diversity lovers just assert their claim while taking your money for their salaries, and it's only a few Milos that are calling bullsheet on it.

Of course anxious, I remember him and assumed everyone else did also

Benjamin Franklin - founder of electricity - born Boston . United States

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Born Salzburg Austria

Albert Einstein Born Ulm Germany

Diego Maradonna born Buenos Aires Argentina