If it’s Greece, it must be a drama – a tragedy for preference. Such is the tramline thinking of the British media.
Adrian Hamilton says in the Independent:
the Greek parliament has voted to pass the "crucial" budget cuts, albeit with the narrowest of majorities
and a Guardian editorial tells us that
the package was voted through by a wafer-thin majority
In fact the voting was 155 yes, 138 no, 5 abstentions.
Admittedly the outcome of the vote was uncertain. One deputy was expelled from the government party for saying he would vote against. That left them with 154, still a majority of the 300 seats in the Greek parliament. So it seems that one opposition member voted with the government. But anyway, a majority of 17 out of 300 is obviously not ‘the narrowest of majorities’ (which would be a majority of one, Mr Hamilton), nor can it reasonably be described as ‘wafer-thin’.
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