Sorry, didn’t mean to make a little rime. But there you go. Anyway, Tony Connelly tweets:

Olli Rehn quotes Brit mountaineer Ed Whymper:”Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end”

To which Liam Cahill adds:

He forgot the bit about ‘except when you’ve already fallen over a cliff.’

The trouble with bureaucracy is you get a lot of mediocre people of medium intelligence no imagination and an unwarranted high degree of self regard running the show. The trouble with Eurocracy is that you get people of hardly any intelligence, no sense and a feeling of divine supremacy since they are answerable to no one, like Olli Rehn (among many others).

Apart from the fact that we have already fallen off the cliff and are floundering in the rapids, Mr Rehn is doing something self serving and rather pernicious here. He is sucking up to his Mistress, The Frau. She is all in favour of the “step by cautious step” approach. However in her case it’s not that she believes in the nonsense she expounds, it is merely tactics.

Tactics to avoid the issue and gain time. We have often wondered if she is gaining time or losing precious time. She thinks the former; however, she may be in for a little surprise over the coming twelve months or so, when she realises she has run out of time completely.

But back to Olli, were he in the private sector which he so extols, he would have been out of a job long ago. Not only that but completely unemployable. What track record would he put on his CV?