Ok, so the Summit Conference is finally over and hey! Surprise, surprise, an agreement has been reached. Sort of. Subject to ratification by the European Parliament. Whose President is making some grumbling noises. But still. This is the EU. It will end up all right in the end, won’t it? That is the way of Europe, isn’t it?
But how can this rabble, rag bag of uncoordinated, unprepared, slip shod bozos, be so thoroughly disorganised all the time? There they go again, squabbling, trying to patch deals together in twos and threes. The big three are supposed to meet in the little guy’s office. Hollande doesn’t show up. Some say he is snubbing, others that Cameron forgot to invite him.
Little Angie back at her old tactical tricks. This time being all sweet on David who is threatening to break up the EU, in a ploy to put Francois in his place, though Francois is firmly in favour of the EU. Well, he is the EU. That is together with Angie playing footsie with big bad David and…
And yes, more late nights, pointless talk into the wee hours. Everybody bleary eyed, edgy, snappy, uncomfortable and really just wasting what ought to be their precious time. Does it never occur to anyone that perhaps all the drudgery and haggling and whining and even name calling could be done at a lower level? Does no one realise that this is indeed what the lower level is for and that the Summit Conference should be nothing more than the official stamp?
As to the absolute ineptness and ineffectiveness of Rompuy and Barroso (who wasn’t even mentioned), what is the use of paying them at all? They make no contribution to the running of the European Mechanism. Neither are their proposals ever given the time of day, nor do the meetings they call ever solve anything. Fat paychecks for totally useless and redundant would be executives.
Nevertheless, these are the great ones who keep telling us we have to reform because we have to recover our competitiveness… Just how competitive has this unruly, inconclusive little show been? Just how many man and women hours have been completely wasted? Just how efficient and smooth is the whole decision making process?
Instead of putting on such an appalling spectacle every so on, perhaps they should spend just a little of their expendable time pondering the matter. And, perhaps, practicing a little of what they preach. And for a start they could cut their own costs by getting rid of all those overpaid ineffectual buffoons.