Letter: Unearned insult

IT WAS with a sense of astonishment that I read John Eoin Douglas’s description of Greece as a savage, fiscally irresponsible nation (Letters, 14 February).

The words pot, kettle and black come to mind. Britain has experienced its fair share of riots and we too are a nation that is running on debt.

Mr Douglas also seems unaware that the rest of Europe is insisting that Greece continues to spend more on armaments than any other Nato country bar the US.

While teachers have their wages slashed by 40 per cent the Greeks are buying €4 billion (£3.3bn) of French Frigates, 60 Eurofighters at another €4bn, and €2bn worth of German submarines.

There is the true savagery and irresponsibility. Little wonder that ordinary Greeks (ie those who can’t take their excessive wealth and invest it in stock or the London property market) are protesting.

David A Robertson

Solas CPC

St Peter’s Street, Dundee