Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Cut out the faux-refusenikery, Mr Osborne.
Britain's taxpayers will be forced by Merkel, Sarkozy and the gang to take on more billions of debt in order to ransom Greece - or, rather, to ransom their precious ECB which is saddled with Greece's worthless debt which of course means that we all are, under the Lisbon Treaty. You will hand over our money WHATEVER the cost - and sod the people. It is written. There is bugger all you can do about it, George, so please stop wasting your time and annoying us.
Look. It was decided decades ago that 'the people' are not to be told the truth because we are simply not equipped to handle it. We 'the people' are an anachronistic annoyance with our constant whining about 'democracy'. We 'the people' cannot accept that we need the smack o' firm gummint by benign elders like Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Herman Rumpy von Pumpy (and those named below) in order to prevent us killing and eating each other. We're barely civilised, quite frankly.
Sigh. You are lying to us about Greece and the Euro, Mr Osborne. You know it and we know it and you know we know it and we know you know we know it. We recognise your blustering and tutting and arm-waving as the standard operating Europrocedure. It's a pantomime of meaningless gestures, a bit like the Ryanair lady's safety demo which bores her and the captive (sic) audience who know it word for word, gesture for gesture so that we neither listen nor watch but carry on reading our papers and listening to our iPods or just lying back with our eyes closed. Fact is, if the plane crashes, we will all die. Fair enough. Can the plane leave now?
Your pouting and gesticulating are just part of the Big Lie. It's a Venerable Tradition. It is what we have come to expect. We know that we are utterly powerless so don't bother your head about us. But I suppose you have to go through the motions, so just get on with it and don't mind if we take no notice.
Can we leave now?
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Courtesy of the Bruges Group:
"One must never forget that monetary union, which the two of us were the first to propose more than a decade ago is ultimately a political project. It aims to give a new impulse to the historic movement towards union of the European states. Monetary union is a federative project that needs to be accompanied and followed by other steps." — Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt, former French & German leaders, quoted in International Herald Tribune, 14.10.97
"The process of monetary union goes hand in hand, must go hand in hand, with political integration and ultimately political union. EMU is, and was meant to be, a stepping stone on the way to a united Europe." — Wim Duisenberg, President, European Central Bank
"The single currency is the greatest abandonment of sovereignty since the foundation of the European Community. It is a decision of an essentially political nature. We need this United Europe. We must never forget that the euro is an instrument for this project." — Felipe Gonzales, former Prime Minister of Spain, May 1998.
"The time for individual nations [in Europe] having its own tax, employment and social policies is definitely over. We must finally bury the erroneous ideas of nations having sovereignty over foreign and defence policies. National sovereignty will soon prove itself to be a product of the imagination." — Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany, January 1999.
"European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government." — EU Commission President Romano Prodi, The Independent, 4th February 2000
"Sometimes I like to compare the EU as a creation to the organisation of empire. We have the dimension of empire." — José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, EUobserver, 10 July 2007
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