Wednesday 14 January 2009

No Laughing Matter

Andrew Gimson's 'Lords Sketch' in today's Daily Telegraph deals with the questioning of the Foreign Office Minister, Lord Malloch-Brown by a House of Lords committee.

"Peer goes the whole hog, as he defends the Government line on the Lisbon Treaty", Andrew Gimson writes. 

Obviously a reference then to the 'snouts in the trough' accusation increasingly being levelled at Europhiles!

The article makes much of the fact the Foreign Office Minister's laughter was a wonder to behold. So he presumably thought the whole subject under discussion, namely the Irish and the Lisbon Treaty, a joke.

It frustrates me to have to point out to this apology for a government minister that those of us who take an interest in matters European do not find the fact that we are subject to laws made by a 'foreign power' a subject of hilarity.

But then, when has any Labour cabinet member, or minister of state, ever shown evidence of possessing a brain - least of all one whose surname contains the letters B, W, N, O and R!


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