In Europe it's never over even when the fat lady sings!

So, as always, we have to wait a day or two as the Brussels' press releases are used up as toilet paper before we begin to hear at least a partial version of the truth.  Which is, that there was, is and maybe never will be, a treaty, and hence, there never was a British veto.  Mats Person at The Coffee House (one amongst several in this mornings media) spells out the fact that all 'the colleagues' (except the 'anti-colleague', Cameron) did at the weekend was sign a more or less blank piece of paper with a scribbled 'wish list' on it.  Now that the principal actors have returned home the snags and snarls of reality are already making an appearance.  In France, Sarkozy's rival, and likely winner, for the presidency has already stated that he will renegotiate the 'Treaty which is not a Treaty'.  In Germany the ruse of giving money to the IMF so that they can give it to the PIIGS has been spotted and there are murmerings to the effect that it is still illegal under German law.  Denmark, Sweden and Finland all have extreme difficulties of one sort or another, and the Irish, bless their little green socks, are likely to have referendum.  As always, you can rely on the Czechs to tell it the way it is:

Prime Minister Petr Necas told the Czech press, ‘It wasn't possible to sign up to this international agreement for a number of reasons. But the main reason was this – nobody knows what's in it’, saying that the deal will need approval form his Parliament.

In the meantime the faint gurgle you can hear inthe distance is the sound of the euro currency dribbling down the toilet.

 

Comments

[Hank]

Fun and games in the European Parliment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ2Prs4fXMA&feature=related

[David Duff]

Yes, I saw that one earlier, Hank. Farage is really good value.