AS AN ENGLISHMAN I CANNOT HELP but share in the unbounded joy felt by not only all my compatriots and all good-thinking, kind people everywhere, but particularly for all those of us who enjoy a happy resolution for a union which on occasion has seen troubled times and doubts but now is leading to the inevitable and desired outcome.
THIS IS THE NEWS THAT HERMAN ACHILLE VAN ROMPUY, President of Europe and pictured above thinking about the future, has finally announced that the Eurozone – and indeed the European project itself – is almost certainly doomed to failure due to utter mismanagement of the hare-brained idea to unite Europe financially, economically and politically against all common sense. The best part of the news, of course, is that this collapse is taking place before the slimy Van Rompuy could produce his hideous plans for a “common European income tax”, although it may be too late to stop his equally sleazy buddy José “No way” Barroso to ask hard-working northern European citizens to cough up their cash to allow Irish, Portuguese and Greek politicians and citizens to sit around doing nothing.
ALSO OF NOTE IN THE PRESS TODAY is the news that Prince William of Wales is about to marry commoner Catherine Elizabeth “Kate” Middleton on a date to be announced in the spring or summer of next year. We all naturally wish them well. It will be extremely refreshing for the royal family to welcome Kate’s parents into their bosom. Given the fact that Kate’s mother was an air hostess and her father a luggage controller at Heathrow, one hopes that her mother does not forget herself at the banquet at the palace and start pushing trolleys around and asking “Are you paying in Pounds or Euros?” Particularly as (hopefully) the Euro will be dead before the marriage is dead.
(My picture shows Prince William’s and Kate’s joy when the Duke of Edinburgh phoned them earlier this year and told them they were in love. Prince Harry expresses his emotions in a rather more subdued manner.)
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