While every one of the 27 EU member states is looking to cutting public expenditure - some more than others - the EU is demanding a £6.3 billion increase in its budget to bring its spending "into line with its new powers under the Lisbon Treaty."So much for the claim that Lisbon was a mere amending treaty, but then the "colleagues" always have lived on a diet of lies, confident that when the chips are down, they can still hold out their hands and the member state governments will come rushing to throw money at them.

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That picture of the Résidence Palace in Brussels, is so unreal. It looks like it should fit into some sort of science fiction movie, that has departed from reality. But then, that's the point, I suppose.......

'and the reason we do not rise up and slaughter them all is?'


Perhaps a rhetorical question might help. Why the massive clamp-down on everything to do with gun ownership over NuLab's term?

Disclaimer - I do not and never have owned a gun (other than an air pistol 40 years ago). I get increasingly tempted however!

You're right ... it looks look something out of a Dan Dare comic ... the meeting place for the Council of the Galaxy, or some such.

I think this is more appropriate… considering the amount of vagina monologues that are going to be emanating from it…

'it looks look something out of a Dan Dare comic'

And the circular aerial structure would then be some sort of mind-control gadget - not, of course, that that would be needed given the sterling character of our great EUrinal leaders!

Remembering that Dan Dare was on our side, probably the Mekon's palace? In fact there is a certain similarity there.

(Cartoon from pencildreams.com)

Hey!

We've sussed you! Your dastardly plot to rule the universe has been discovered!

If I discovered I had a terminal illness, I could be tempted to strap a load of C4 to myself with a dead man's release.

DaveE.