Euro Divides, 'Violent Revolution' May Loom: Critic

[BlueStateSaint]

I don't know if this made it over here anywhere, but this is from last week.

Euro Divides, 'Violent Revolution' May Loom: Critic

By CNBC | CNBC – Tue, Oct 9, 2012 5:35 PM EDT

Europe's troubled single currency is dividing the continent into warring factions, all of which could end in a "democratic...or violent revolution" between the continent's indebted economies and their European creditors, a U.K. lawmaker told CNBC Tuesday.

Nigel Farage - leader of the populist U.K. Independence Party and a member of the European Parliament, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that the currency shared by 17 of Europe's economies was forcing them to "hate each other." He believes Greece should default, with the euro completely broken-up and reverted back to its legacy currencies.

Protests - and antipathy toward Germany - are raging in Greece over austerity measures. Farage warned that the conflict was exacerbating the divide between Europe's wealthy northern bloc and its poorer Southern region. (Read more: Snipers, Commandos to Welcome Merkel in Greece.)

"What will break [the euro] up in the end...will be one of two things," Farage said. "It will either be a democratic revolution in countries like Finland and the Netherlands, where they get governments who say enough, or it will be violent revolution in Southern Europe."

Farage is a vitriolic critic of the euro project. The self-described European skeptic frequently harangues fellow parliamentarians from the floor of the European Parliament, and has morphed into an Internet sensation in the process. His anti-euro diatribes are frequently posted to YouTube.

Will it spill over here?  If the Obamessiah is re-elected . . . !

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/euro-divides-violent-revolution-may-213512315.html