The problem, however, is that the financial sector is what really needs restructuring and rehabilitating. It has been simply buying time since the 2008 crash to keep on with its profoundly self-destructive practices, destroying not only individual families’ lives but whole nations, while a tiny elite suck out their wealth like besuited vampires.

This pain is not going to stop for Greece – in fact it is going to keep spreading to other nations – until wholesale finance reform is taken seriously.