Here is my take from Exarchia in downtown Athens this morning, as I join what looks to be a huge demo of public sector workers across the city. It is crunch time for the opponents of the austerity plan. It looks like it will go through parliament narrowly - possibly with the privatisation element ring-fenced into a separate law, so that the deputies do not vote directly on the privatisation of energy and water. With remarkable aplomb, no fewer than 156 Greek MPs have registered to speak in the debate. So it will drag on for 48 hours. Prime Minister George Papandreou's Pasok party's essential argument right now is ... (full story)