Well now, just what does the Economist imagine? That this is something new? And especially from a British magazine, this can’t help sounding just a little facetious. Or does the Economist not see how much of a clown Cameron is? Or Osborne, who has made one of the best jokes. That the Moody’s downgrade proves he must carry on with his destructive austerity policy. Though the sluggish performance of the British economy that his policy has induced was the reason for the downgrade.
And as for Barroso or Van Rompuy, all we have to do is just say their names and we start hooting with laughter. Take the Mario Monti put down of Van Rompuy, when he got up to make his statement of full agreement on everything, after the Summit Conference last year. Monti’s reaction was tantamount to “shut up and sit down!” we have not agreed on anything yet. And Rompuy, the President of the European Council, supposedly a notch up from the once powerful (remember Delors?) President of the Commission… just sat down and shut up.
So Italy hardly has the monopoly on clowns, if clowns they be!
The Economist should have done better. Another clown in the European leadership is not worth a front page.
What would be worth front page news is “At last! An intelligent person, with a head on his/her shoulders, a brain in his/her head, with intelligence, creativity and above all guts, has actually been voted in!”
Now that indeed would be news. Unfortunately it does not look at likely to happen. Unless it is the “clowns” the Economist has chosen to deride, that pull the mask off the real clowns running Europe at the moment, and manage to wake us all up.