SIR – These are puzzling times in the Eurozone.

Following the bail-out announcement, the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou forgot his script (as a contemporary politician) and, bizarrely, decided to hold a referendum.

He was to ask the Greek people if they supported the terms of the bail-out and by implication, if they would like an even bigger serving of unemployment, tax rises and butchered public services. No prizes for guessing the way that vote would go!

Suddenly all hell breaks loose. The capitalist media are up in arms, making false reports of his imminent resignation and reporting there was to be a vote of no confidence.

Even the usually-reticent BBC were edging towards the implication that he had somehow done something wrong.

Quite the contrary, in fact. For the first time in three years of financial crisis, a politician had actually done something right.

Mr Papandreou showed real leadership to ask the people who elected him the direction he should take, as opposed to being bribed or bullied by greedy capitalists, bankers and their political lickspittles at the G20 summit in Cannes.

I have little doubt, however, that this democratic move will cost him very dearly.

Christopher Hindle, Osterley Grove, Bradford