Well, it seems as though there was quite a barrage of protest against Mme Lagarde’s lack of any sympathy for little Greek kids going hungry and not only from Greeks. Well she fudged a sort of, not an apology, but one of those diplomatic “clarifications”. Yes, well er um.. I didn’t quite mean that, sort of and so on.

Personally the best riposte came from someone who said it was a welcome change for an IMF Director to actually say she was concerned about the children in Nigeria. Given that the state of children in Nigeria is directly the result of IMF policies. However, having shown us how much she knows or thinks about things, in her defence I would say Mme Lagarde probably hasn’t a clue about that either.

Nevertheless, another alarming fact we have discovered about the lady is that she is a teetotaler and a vegetarian. Whoops! Now that doesn’t auger at all well. Not if we remember the last time someone with those specific preferences held sway over Europe!