> That's weird he would think Tsripas anticipated a YES vote; that doesn't
> really make sense.
>
> It's hard to tell where Evans-Pritchard's speculating starts and his
> reporting starts, but sure it makes sense: Tsipras is the head of a
> political party, and political parties tend to want to stay in power. What
> better way for that to happen in this instance than for the citizens to
> vote for their own subsumption, which the ruling party can the implement as
> the people's representative.* I find all that more plausible than that
> he'd resign.
>
> *(Of course you'd have to count on people not remembering that the
> "European proposal" that everyone hated was substantially similar to one
> put forward by Syriza just a few weeks earlier.)