Frau Merkel is reported as having said she wants the UK to stay in the EU. She was also broadcast saying (among many other admonitions) that the Greeks should not strike every time a company is privatised. She also wants a fiscal union on her terms. Which are, everybody surrenders their sovereignty to… Brussels, well that means Me of course. She also does not want the banking union unless it is on her terms exclusively which is what all this newspeak over “quality not speed” is all about.

She is becoming more and more brazen and cynical by the day. She has dropped the “we would like” euphemism, for the explicit “I want”, “I do not want”. Which I certainly hope prompts a Nigel Farage type response of “Who are you?’, “Just who do you think you are?”, now that she is dropping her guard and taking her mask of collectivity off.

As I said in yesterday’s post: “some animals are equaller than others”. It is the Germans who are the Orwellian Pigs in the European Union. So I suppose David Cameron should be very careful, lest he incur The Frau’s wrath. As to Greeks going on strike! Small wonder The Frau’s lackey, the confidence inspiring Samaras just pushed through Parliament the most horrific austerity measures that will lead to utter destitution and the total collapse of the Greek economy.

That should teach them not to do everything The Frau wants without a word. Now, you may well say that the Portuguese did do that, but still The Frau’s Vampire Economics did not work as planned. So now she wants them to implement even greater austerity, under the definition of stupidity theory of do the same thing again and expect to achieve different results.

Still, in her authoritarian manner, and already drunk with power, The Frau may have overlooked something. The German Economy is doing far worse under her Vampire Economics, in that production and exports are going down. She is also overlooking something else. When (when not if) the exits start, Brexit, Grexit, Italexit and so on, far from hurting the exitters it will bring the moribund EU down which will, in the end, hurt her more than it hurts us.

Oh, and talking of her little flap over Britain and the EU Budget. What does she have to say about Cameron’s objection, that you can’t insist on drastic cuts everywhere else and expect to increase the EU budget when everyone is struggling to cut their own costs?

Not to mention the vastly overpaid European mechanism form the Commissioners to everyone else in this bloated Eurocracy. People like Olli Rehn and Jean Claude Juncker who are terribly good at telling everyone else that they must impose debilitating austerity and starve to death in order to balance their books, but are not so good when it comes to their own books. They have in fact owned up to a certain amount of mismanagement of European funds.

But when it comes to themselves and their perks, then the answer is, raise the EU budget and get the Brits to fork up while they are winding down their Health Service. If you think that makes no sense, just ask Olli Rhen (notorious for getting all his forecasts completely wrong). He’ll tell you it makes perfect sense. After all, they must continue to live in the style to which they have become accustomed.

Perhaps it is time the EU should start thinking about how to dismantle this horrific monstrosity that what was once a vision has now turned into.