I have been unkind about Mr Juncker in this blog. Mainly because he has insisted on forecasting our GDP in 2020 with mathematical precision of point five or previously point nine, although there was no way he did not know this was arrant nonsense.
However there was something about Mr Juncker that made you feel a little sorry for him. First of all he always looked like a mournful walrus, only lighting up when he greeted the glamorous Christine Lagarde. Then he shuffled around the corridors of power in the manner of an old grandad and you often found yourself looking at his feet to see whether he wasn’t in fact wearing his slippers. Yet he wasn’t that old. He looked seventy but is not yet sixty.
So now he has announced he is stepping down from the leadership of the Eurozone. And this is where we start to warm to him. Of course he knew he was spewing nonsense! Of course he knew The Frau’s insistence on austerity uber alles was catastrophic and will only lead to a lot of pain and sorrow. Not least for those insisting on it. You could see it in his face. It was probably what made him look so mournful and so much older than he really is. He couldn’t take any more of this idiocy. So he stepped down.
Now here’s the punch line. The Frau has decided that this position is far too important to be left to any one of a lower race… I mean… well, you know what I mean! So the perfect choice for this position is Wolfgang Schaeuble! That nice gentleman in the wheelchair, who has no problem in spewing out economic inanities and knows perfectly well that the austerity plan is the only plan there is. Anyway, the only man The Frau can trust to do the job properly.
It will be interesting to see if she manages to bulldozer her way through this one and impose her will on all the rest. I have little doubt that she will. Remember how they all dociley put their heads on the block one by one to sign her idiotic, catastrophic indictment of Keynes! Except for the British and the Czechs! We must keep saying that and acknowledge their clear headedness. Besides, how could a British Prime Minister ever sign a pact abolishing Keynes? Even David Cameron.
Still, if things carry on merrily, the way they have been doing up to now (and don’t forget IF is a very big word), then I have a suggestion I am sure The Frau will snap up.
Abolish Brussels altogether. Move the works to Berlin, the center of power. Also bring in a pact decreeing that no serious job can ever go to anyone other than a German of the right wing parties. Furthermore, since you can’t trust these lower… well of lower ability southerners and others to do anything right, impose a German governor to oversee (well impose really) policy in each and every country of the EU. And while we’re at it abolish the European Parliament. It’s just a waste of money and we must cut back on expenses.
Besides, at a stroke we shall have got rid of troublesome voices such as those of Nigel Farage and Danny Cohn Bendit!
(I hope to God The Frau doesn’t read this blog! She’s bound to take it very seriously.)