A German Götterdämmerung - no, really!

Sorry, sorry, but I simply could not resist popping over for a quick dip into International-Spiegel Online, a hopelessly Leftie German rag.  Apparently, the German for shock-horror is, er, well, Schock-Horror - whodathunkit?  Anyway, there's plenty of it to be seen at Spiegel:

Brexit is a catastrophe, but it is not the end of the European Union

And heading the article is a touching photo of Frau Dumpling holding hands with Insp. Clousseau:

 Needless to say, we Brits are sehr böse Buben, very naughty boys!

 

It is infinitely discouraging that the majority of the British believe their country doesn't belong in the European Union. It is a misconception and a mistake. But it has now been made and we must all live with it. No means no. The eternal squabbles with the United Kingdom must now come to an end. Go with God. But go.

 

Oh alright then, if you say so!  Another article headed Fear and Loathing in Britain insists that

 

Brexit was a decision based on gut instinct rather than reason. The predominant sentiments in play were nostalgia, fear and a vague hatred of the establishment. On top of this comes a fear of foreigners that was deliberately stoked by Brexit strategists during the campaign -- and that's what makes this decision both sad and depressing.

 

I know, I know, Humpernikel or whatever your name is, we are a tad careful with some European countries although the history of the last century might have something to do with that, and the century before that it was the French, and the century before that it was the Spanish.  All our fault, of course!

 

The next piece, entitled

• Fear and Loathing in Britain: Brexit Is an Act of Deliberate Self-Mutilation

 insists that:

 

Britain's vote to leave the EU was a gut decision, an emblem of a country in retreat. The island nation is getting smaller and smaller.

 

Well, that's OK with me, Fritz, but don't get too bossy or this titchy Island might stop buying all those Mercs and BMWs and emission-cheating VWs!  Anyway, I don't wish to fall out with you so I will finish by wishing you the best of British German luck with all those Muslims you invited in and I trust that bailing out all those Med countries will not cost you too much.

 

Auf Wiedersehen, pet!

 

 

 

Comments

[Whyaxye]

So Brexit was a "misconception and a mistake", was it? What do you call lending squillions of unrecoverable Euros to the Greeks, and opening your country to half the rapists in the Middle East?

[jimmy glesga]

It is like Henry VIII meeting Anne of Cleeve and saying you are an ugly cow, where is my mistress.

[AussieD]

Lovely photo of a lovely couple.

He is thinking, "If I tell her I love her that'll give me time to move a lot of my possessions out before I tell her it is over".

She is thinking, "First the Kaiser, then Adolph, now me. I almost had this Frog bastard. F---ing Englanders"

Luvverly innit?

[Andra]

I think that's the Loony Tunes opening sequence in the background, which just about sums the whole thing up.

[Antisthenes]

When the Germans wake up to the fact that the EU bank account has now got a great deal smaller and more of the burden of paying the EU bills and EU cock ups will fall on them will they then think the EU is a marvellous place to be.