castanid (o) 1. one who flees from where he is unwanted “I am not a donkey to be burdened by those who do not want me, so I become a castanid”

2. Insignificant loss “I can’t think of a single player in the team that if he leaves, he won’t be a Castanidis”

Heroic exit without changing anything

I understand the need for a heroic exit but in reality Androulakis had sacked fellow Castanidis long before he left. Not only did he take away his parliamentary seat, but he made sure to impose a rule (that of a maximum of 5 terms) that would not allow him to run again. So Castanides’ departure changes absolutely nothing. It just allows the old PASOK executive to jump off a ship that even if it doesn’t sink is impossible to sail and for President Nicola to play leader without further grumbling until the elections in which all indications are that PASOK will fight not for first place but for second or third (not excluding a battle for fourth). Since the leadership team as a whole has decided that it wants the party to resemble SYRIZA, it will have to limit its expectations to Syriza-like figures.

Sensible absence

The absence of the front-runner Tsipras from the first episode of the documentary “At the Millennium” that aired yesterday on SKAI was finally particularly noticeable. As with all drama (and the memory of the attempt to blow up the country is particularly dramatic) it needed a comic note (what the Anglo-Saxons call “comic relief”) and the absence of the mastermind of the negotiation and referendum took it away.

E, not a “peddler” comrade

Comrade Fanfarantouris rightly felt that the word “peddlers”, which came out of Comrade Giannakopoulou’s mouth, did not apply to him. How is it possible to call a man a “peddler” who only in the last few years became a SYRIZA, supported Kasselakis, then sold him out, then flirted with the quantum doctor Karstianou from whom he ate noodle pie, then was kicked out of SYRIZA and finally ended up in PASOK?

Martyriaris

The fact that the US president himself described America’s actions as “pirate” proves that no amount of propaganda can do a country the harm that an incompetent and deranged leader can do to it.

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