Don’t worry. This isn’t a trick question. Anyway, none of those currently in power (mostly the unelected nomenclatura of the Commission and of course The Frau Directorate) are never going to ask us. It’s neither here nor there to them what the people of Europe want. (Note, I say people rather than peoples, because we are one and not many, even though we have yet to fully realise this.)

So we start from negativity. Since they know best, and what is best is saving the banks (well at least they think that is what they are doing) the last thing they want is any kind of democracy because for all the threats and terrorization, ultimately not only will the people not want to pay for the banks with everything they have, including their lives, but they will be unable to.

A point Greece is reaching at the moment. This year’s tax returns under a new extremely harsh system will demand payments from many already below subsistence level on pain of having anything they own summarily confiscated! Which is why the current government of toadies decided to put off submission of tax returns till AFTER the election. They knew they wouldn’t have a chance in hell if it happened before. Now full terrorization of the electorate is being employed.

Professor Varoufakis has an excellent piece on the democratic deficit of Europe, pointing out that when it comes to the democratic deficit, all European countries can (and are) slide into it. As opposed to the economic deficits where (Angela please note) that for some countries to have a surplus others must be in deficit. BY DEFINITION.

So the real danger to Europe and what used to be know as European values is the stark erosion of Democracy. One blatant example being when Greece’s Prime Minister was summoned to Cannes to be told by Merkozy (then) that he cannot ask his people if they agree to the new bailout! He was told not to hold a referendum, or if he insisted, the question would not be the one about agreeing to the terms of the bailout, but whether or not Greece wanted to remain in The Eurozone.

The sad part is that our then PM came back with his tail between his legs like a whipped dog acquiescing to all of the Merkozy demands. A nasty blow to the concept of Democracy.

Now that the Merkozy monster has split (at least until the French Elections), the bully’s side kick finds himself in the place he so relished putting the hapless Papandreou into. As we said yesterday, after seeing his chances of reelection go dangerously down in the polls, he decided to demand that the ECB should play a role in promoting growth in the European Union.

A very sensible, if belated, proposal. And something the people of Europe not only want but need and are unanimously in favour of. But what happens? Almost a replay of the Cannes ignominy Papandreou was subjected to.

Jens Weidmann, head of the Bundesbank (and hence far more important and far more powerful than any piddly elected head of state, be that of France or Spain) thunders out the following: What nonsense from Sarkozy! The European Central Bank should not give any attention to economic growth! And that’s final! And about Spain and the dangerous rise in her spreads?

Spain should not expect the ECB to pull it out of the mire. So what if its spreads have gone up temporarily? All this means is that the Spanish government should pull its act together and screw its people even harder and more viciously. (My paraphrase of what the man actually said. But not of his meaning).

So there we have it. Who gives a damn about elections in France? It is the Bundesbank laying down the law! As for Greece? Why doesn’t that messy place just sink into oblivion! We really have no use for it any more.

No. They don’t. And especially not for one of the things produced there many many years ago. No, not olive oil. But Democracy. They have no use for that at all!