And there we have it, yet another (failed) senior politician standing on the steps of an airliner direct from Europe waving a piece of paper at us and saying it’s a great result for us. Yeah, we remembered what happened last time.
They just can’t seem to resist it can they? Give a Labour politician a sniff of our cash and they have this overwhelming urge to splash it all on a 3 legged nag, usually as the result of a dare. Even when he’s halfway out the door he couldn’t resist the temptation to blow a cool 25 billion because his mates in Europe said it’d be great.
Trusting soul that he was he went straight over there popped 25 billion in the slot, while his Euromates sniggered behind their hands, pressed the button and all he got out was a single piece of paper on which the word ‘Thanks!” was written in some weird Greek script.
I don’t altogether blame Ali of course; those French accents with that way of saying ‘darling’ can turn a man’s head and the thought of Frau Merkel in a leather bustier and thigh length boots – and a hat, gotta have a hat. Peaked of course – goose stepping round his bed occupied his darkest fantasies (have you got the mental image yet? Will you ever forgive me?). Anyway sod it! It ain’t my money; the Tories will get the blame. So he blew the lot. Ah well c’est la vie.
You see the thing I can’t understand is how on earth did the clause that triggered the majority voting (which, in all fairness, did stuff Darling) was able to be activated due to the ‘unforeseen circumstances’ of the PIIGS crisis?
Unforeseen? The papers were full of the financial strokes the PIIGS had pulled in order to slide sideways into the Euro back in the 90s. Everybody knew, right down to the Threadneedle street cat. And we found out last week that Goldman Sachs helped Greece to cook the books.
Unforeseen indeed!
I have a feeling that we ought to get a lawyer to have a look at that ‘treaty’. I tell you what I know where I can lay me ‘ands on a whole load of them milling round in this huge palace with nothing to do. They’d love a bit of paid work, as long as its extra mind. Know what I mean?
In fact I can recommend one right now. Her name’s Vera………
©Kevin
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hmm. I wasn’t a Common Purpose conspiracist until I heard the leaders press conference today. They both said it. Bizare, is it real?
Another one that make me goes hmm – unemployment hits 2.5 million – when will the Libores start blaming the Cleggon?
Anna,
The ECJ (European Court of Justice) is the only Court that can interpret the EU Treaties. That is its purpose – it is a Political Court, not the sort of Court we usually think of when we use the word ‘Court’ – and the Treaties are so loosely worded that their clauses can be interpreted in a number of ways. The ECJ interprets the EU Treaties according to its function as set out in the founding Treaty, the Treaty of Rome, namely “ever closer union” of Member States. So it will always interpret the Treaties in a way which benefits the EU as a whole and furthers the goal of “ever closer union”. That is why we are so comprehensively stuffed. Remember, there is no concept of ‘the national interest of a Member State’ within the EU, only what is in the best interest of the EU as a whole. The Lisbon Treaty gave legality to a ‘Supranational government’ over all Member States. That is why the Eurocrats wanted it so much. Under QMV (Qualified Majority Voting), which applied to this measure, the UK has just a bit less than 10% of the votes so Alistair Darling didn’t have much choice. Quite why we as a country should contribute to the bailout fund for the profligate Greeks may be a whorthwhile question for us to ask but it is of no relevance to the Eurocrats in Brussels.
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