We’re sitting on a time bomb. All of us. It’s one of those booby trap bombs that will go off if you stop sitting on it, or else when time is up. And time is nearly up. Here in Greece we can actually feel the ticking going up through our b…. body! But although the rest of Europe may not actually be sitting right on top of it like we are here in Greece, when it does go off the blast won’t spare anyone. Not even Germany.
Meanwhile the bomb disposal unit charged with neutralizing it, is made up of a group of headstrong idiots some of whom are drunk and stumbling. The others haven’t a clue what to do but are too proud to admit it since they have been making a great show of knowing it all. Yes that kind of idiot. Always the worst.
And every time they do something in the vain hope that this time it will work, it only gets more precarious. The ticking only grows louder and the bomb disposal unit is seized by greater and greater panic.
However, there is a little switch to the side of the device. A little switch which, bomb experts have repeatedly told them is what they should use. It’s really quite simple. They tell them. All you have to do is flick the switch and turn it off. Then the bomb will have been neutralized and you can go about setting the surrounding mess in order without fear of being blown to high heaven.
What? Of all the cheek! How dare you try telling us what to do! We know best! And anyway, we can’t just turn off the switch like that! It would be against Union Rules and you know we can never go against Union Rules. Not even if it means blowing everything and everyone up to high heaven.