"HOW WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR BOOKS COOKED"?

"Brussels' style perhaps; that will be well done".

Rather like Christmas and birthdays, we experience the ritual denial of auditors' signatures on the European Union annual accounts. This is the seventeenth consecutive year that fraud has been exposed in the shabby business which is the EU. The extraordinary result of this disgraceful fiasco is that no one appears to care. Furthermore, not one official faces charges. Which probably suggests that there isn't enough prison accommodation in Brussels.

From this annual event of overlooking the disgraceful waste of taxpayers money, is it any wonder that the whole European project is in abject meltdown?

During the ongoing series of panic meetings, mainly between the two fixers, Merkel and Sarkozy, one wonders if they ever discuss these occurrences. On the other hand, fraud might well be part of their political make up. The writer is mindful of Stalin's impatience with Churchill, who regularly reminded the Dictator, that in a democracy, decisions had to be made in Parliament, not by one dictatorial person. This is something that the current Westminster shambles would do well to remember.


WITH A BIT OF LUCK, THERE WON'T BE A NEXT YEAR.