I have just caught a glimpse on TV of 'Dave the King of the Clichés' marching across a platform at Davos with a manful stride and then turning and pelting his audience with, er, clichés. They, meaning 'Merkozy' although he didn't say it, must 'be firm', they 'must take tough decisions', they 'must stop tinkering', and so on and on. Well, we all know, as does he, that there are only two cures for the ills of the euro - either it breaks up and reduces to a north Europe German hegemony, or, the whole lot of them unite under a central government and central bank. Which one does Dave want? He seems to be in favour of the second. In other words, he actually wants a colossal national entity created just across the Channel and the North Sea, an outcome which is in direct opposition to British foreign policy for 500 years and against which countless generations of Englishmen have fought and died to foil. And if such a monstrosity is brought into being, what part does Dave see us playing? Will we join it? Or will we be an appendix, a sort of dangling spare part of no real use or importance, let alone influence, to the powerful United States of Europe? And if he is actually being rather crafty (which I don't believe because he's not intelligent enough) and hoping to prod 'Merkozy' into either failure or into this giant marriage so that, in either event, it will provide us with an excuse to leave, has he told Nick Clegg?
Well, I could tell you what I think is in your future but it would only depress you.
Posted by: Andra | Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 20:53
At my age I think I already know!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 21:29