I was watching the TV news earlier today and saw the preparations for the meal which they are going to have tonight. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. Has nobody told the politicians that Europe is skint and up to the eyeballs in debt?!
I don’t see that it’s necessary for them to have a meal at all, and certainly not a big fancy beanfeast which they seem to be setting the scene for. The most they should be having is tap water, beans on toast then some instant coffee and a digestive biscuit. It’s more than some poor souls will be able to afford.
You would think that given the circumstances they would be embarrassed to be spending any money on this summit. I’m sure they could communicate with each other just as well via the internet.
Of course we are the people who will be paying for it all through taxes, it’s about time they realised that things are too serious to be spending anything on expensive fripperies – it dawned on the rest of us ages ago.
I must say that I’m not one of those nutcases who think we should not be in the European Union, it would cost us more to be outside it anyway but that doesn’t mean that I think it’s perfect, there’s an awful lot of room for improvement.
The absolute vacuum of leadership around the world (my own USA right up there with the worst of them) is terrifying to me. Not only because of the inability to do what’s needed/right (as opposed to what’s easy/sounds nice) but because it means that we as a global society are as empty-headed as they to have placed these fools in positions of power in the first place. Was it de Tocqueville who said “we get the government(s) we deserve” ?
Sorry – my most particular hot button du jour.
I actually popped on to ask if you’d seen this http://io9.com/5865968/the-most-beautiful-literary-mystery-in-edinburgh/gallery/1
Stunning detail from an obvious lover of the written word.
Pearl,
Thanks, I haven’t heard of these sculptures at all, I love the building.I’ll have to see if I can view any of them if I ever get to Edinburgh before Christmas. I wonder if we’ll ever find out who is doing them! The bridges have all been closed again today as the wind is so fierce.
Yes Tocqueville said it originally and I keep thinking that surely we must have deserved better than we have at the moment. They’re all so useless. From here, Obama seems like a good guy – but then lots of people in the US loved Thatcher but believe me it was no fun having her as leader, she was positively evil and hated the Scots so she tried out all her nonsense on us before the rest of the UK got it – like the poll tax.
A cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit to be would the best way to sit down and solve these problems – too much wining and dining and not enough focussed talking!
Do as I say not as I do springs to mind!
Hope you are safe and well up there and the weather is not too bad, having seen all the reports on the news.
Jo,
It infuriates me, it must all cost a fortune. You’re right, they don’t even deserve tea and biscuits when you think about it.
I’m quite amazed that we still have electricity tonight as the wind has been terrible. I didn’t even go out of the house, it’s scary enough inside with the wind howling down the chimneys.
Our choir were invited to sing at the opening of the Scottish Parliament this year. We were told that there would be “refreshments” and were asked to fill in a form about dietary requirements. Thinking there would maybe be sandwiches and sausage rolls, we were amused when we got there to find our refreshments were Tunnocks teacakes and Barrs Irn Bru!
Evee,
It could have been worse I suppose. They might have said – “You’ll have had your tea”! – and got nothing. I bet you they got the Irn Bru and Tunnocks free too. You can’t even say that you sang for your supper there!