The much-vaunted European bailout plan has met with yet another delay with a meeting on Wednesday postponed. We asked an EU insider for the reason; "The problem is that taxpayers will ultimately have to stump up for all this and each European leader differs in what he can get away with at home. The Germans are worried that their voters won't much like bankrolling the rest of Europe, while the Italians are worried that their voters won't actually let them get away with austerity measures. Meanwhile the Brits are trying to encourage everyone to commit economic suicide as they're doing because Britsh voters, unlike most Europeans, haven't got a clue as to what's going on. The French are worried about their farmers, still ploughing fields with teams of oxen, while the Spanish are terrified at the number of apartments blocks they will have to demolish after failing to fill them with British buyers trying to escape the government at home. As for Portugal, don't get me started." After this pithy analysis we asked George Osborne for his view; "Couldn't give a monkies to be honest," he told us. "I'm sick to death of telling Johnnie Foreigner how throwing everyone out of work will do the trick. They should take a leaf out of our book - tell the electorate one thing, do another and then lie about it. As far as politics are concerned these European are amateurs. At the end of the day economics is just a fancy word for screwing taxpayers and feathering your own nest."
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