Unfortunately for Greece their slot at being top dog was almost two and a half thousand years ago when they gave us Plato, Aristotle and Alexander the Great but can now only rustle up a bottle of Ouzo and a plastic souvenir Acropolis with wonky columns.
It did have another day in the Sun in 1821 when it kicked Turkey out and declared itself independent then failed to do very much which is why it went hand in cap to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a €1.6 billion bail out a few years ago after making a half-arsed attempt at austerity to reign in the runaway economy but did the Greeks not like that so the citizens scraped together what little they had, purchased petrol, a box of matches and some empty bottles and throw it at the police instead.
Greece then defaulted on it's loan and cheekily asked for another €7.2 billion bailout so not only having their cake and eating it, but then going back for another slice.
The most alarming thing about the whole mess Greece got itself into was the comments that Britain could be the next Greece and as one, we all spluttered on our cream scones, rose up and shouted, 'Not bloody likely'.
Not that i have anything against Greece but we could never be another Greece. For one we are not hairy enough and we don't shout and wave our arms around like a windmill in a gale when we talk so if we are going to be like another country, why can't we be like one of those nice Scandinavians countries who are the equivalent of the retired gentleman tending his own patch of garden and tutting at the youngsters zipping about having wars and recessions.
Nope, we can't be Greek because us Brits are a different breed altogether and we have something they don't. The Elgin marbles.
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