Come on, 'Merkozy', don't stop, give Dave a good kicking!

From what I can gather (and eventually history will no doubt prove me wrong) Dave went to Brussels looking for a way out.  However, the 'Merkozies' not only failed to toss him a bone, they didn't even offer a few scraps off the bone so that he could return to London and, in time honoured tradition, wave his bit of paper and claim 'peace in our time'.  It wasn't too much to ask, after all, because slapping new taxes and regulations on the City of London could have been postponed and then, in typical Brussels' fashion, brought back to the table in a couple of years. And anyway, none of that was going to effect the main problem of saving the euro currency, so why make an issue of it?  Well, the reason the 'Merkozies' did so was quite simple, in my opinion - they detest the British.  It never ceases to amaze me how many Brits, particularly those of a Lib-Dem nature, pull the blanket over their heads and resolutely refuse to face the obvious, that the vast majority of Europeans of all classes really do not like Britain and the British and will take any opportunity to get even.  Of course, if like Clegg you have a frightfully smart European wife and both of you move in the top wining and dining salons of Europe it is easy to despise what you might think of with a sneer as 'the little Englanders'.  But we exist, Mr. Clegg, we exist, and more important, we vote.  Without a doubt the one group to really suffer severe collateral damage from this European imbroglio will be the Lib-Dems whose leaders have obviously chosen high office over political principle but whose followers have chosen ideology over patriotism.  You will reap the whirlwind at the next election!

Anyway, the 'Merkozies' by not offering Dave even the tiniest of tiny fig leafs it left him, almost certainly against his inclination, with no alternative but to stand on the white cliffs of Dover  and emulate that old wartime cartoon:

My thanks to EU Referendum from whence I nicked the cartoon!

At this point we must all encourage the 'Merkozies' on to even greater follies as they vent their spite on poor little Dave.  Come on, Angela, click those dagger blades out from your Rosa Klebb shoes and start kicking; and, Nicolas, I know you only reach up to his knees but you could jump up and down and - at the usual safe, French distance, of course - pull funny (funnier?) faces.  Or better still, in your usual devious manner, you could encourage the Brussels Eurocrats, behind whom you can hide, to start turning the screw on the Brits by issuing forth a spate of regulations for the City.

Of course, if they do that it will play straight into the hands of 'Dave & Co' who can then turn to the country and ask for a fresh mandate to vigorously defend British interests without the necessity of being saddled with an unpatriotic, Lib-Dem, fifth column. That should ensure that once again the Lib-Dems are reduced to a 10-seat irrelevence which is their proper place in the world - until they rediscover traditional Liberal politics.  Needless to say, whilst Dave does not exactly cut an inspiring figure on the world stage, in an election, he need only point his imperious Etonian finger at the gawping, gulping juvenile who leads the Labour party and ask the electorate whether they think he is the man they can trust to defend the nation's interests.  Game over, I suggest!

Sent back with a whopping new majority, 'Dave & Co' can then set about renegotiating a new relationship with the wreckage of Europe that will remain after the euro collapses and the EU disintegrates which, given the fact that this inter-governmental meeting failed even to address the immediate crisis, is now more likely than ever to occur.  So, not all bad news, then!

 

Comments

[dearieme]

Somefinks up. The reaction of Merkozy to Cameron's mild requests was so preposterous, even by a couple of pols worried about re-election, that an explanation is required - an explanation, if I may say so, Duffers, with a bit more weight than "They don't like us".

Anyway, we can wave them off as they put to sea in their Titanic. We await the future on our Lusitania.

[David Duff]

You chide me, DM, and quite correctly, too, for being more than usually facile in offering an explanation for the actions of the 'Merkozies'. Alas, after a heavy night entertaining old friends to dinner, 'facile' is what you are going to get the morning after! However, I have just had a rehabilatory afternoon nap and thus refreshed I still cannot understand why they did what they did. They knew his back was against the wall at home and that just a small gesture would give him enough camouflage to return home with something, and yet they chose to give him nothing. Perhaps, like me, they judged that he was so spineless that, like other PMs before him, he would simply give in. In which case, both they and I were wrong. Hmmmn! Have we misjudged the man?