Climatically things have gone quite wild in Europe, with temperatures in the mid thirties and forties (Centigrade) even in places like France and Germany. Heat waves all over, raging forest fires from Spain’s Canary Islands down through Italy and Greece. Austerity cuts hampering fire fighting efforts and storms in every tea cup from John O’Groats  in northern Scotland to Ierapetra in southern Crete.

And as if all that were not enough we have the blatant dithering, confusion, inability to realise, let alone focus, on what matters and how to deal with it within Europe. Leadership insists on plans that have quite obviously quite failed. Out of stubbornness? Idiocy? Some dark conspiratorial design? Who knows. And who cares.

The mess is so great and so intractable, does it really matter any more who caused it all and why? And as we have said before, the only thing that this German imposed policy has achieved is to exacerbate hatreds throughout the continent, reduce what passes for political analysis to racial slanging matches, narrow minded bigotry, finger pointing and of course the blame game. None of which is conducive to tackling the real problems of the real economy.

Do you think the crazy weather has boggled the crazy minds of what goes for politicians in Europe? Could there be some correlation? We have to ask. It is well known that the moon can have an effect on people’s minds. Perhaps all these heat waves, particularly in northern Europe, have turned the minds of our politicians into mush.

There is no rational explanation to anything going on any more. Globally. When a woman of limited ability, limited scope, limited vision and limited intelligence is declared The Most Powerful Woman of the World by Forbes magazine, what else would you expect to be happening in the world today?

Perhaps it’s the nonsensical antics of European politicians that has affected the weather down here, rather than the other way around, after all.

[This particular version stops short of the lyrics quoted in the title. But I find it’s so much more fitting!]

* From the lyrics of Leonard Bernstein’s song ‘I feel pretty'” from West Side Story.