Isn’t it great that we have come up with a Trillion Euro so that it doesn’t fall through the floor further, and to stop the sharks running on it? But the very fact that it had to be done at all leaves the currency as weak as water. Those of you who still have Pesetas, Francs, Irish Pounds… hold on to them!  The communion money brigade are right again!

It’s funny to watch this whole EU thing playing out.  The idea that we can all be buddy buddy, which I feel is like communism, is a great idea in theory – and that´s where it *stops*.

Why? Because we have one currency and sixteen different budgets in sixteen different countries. The only way to have one currency is to give *all* power to Brussels, and they have control over the whole EU budget. The problem is now that we have given them half the power, and a half of anything is the worst place you could be.  Ask a pilot or the captain of a ship!!  So we should either pull out of it or give them complete power.

There are advantages and disadvantages to giving them complete power.  One advantage is that we wouldn’t need that useless shower in Dáil Éirean and could get rid of them for good, as all decisions would be made in Brussels where, as I have said, half of them are anyway.  The dissadvantage is that they would lose us our identity, and God knows what stupid laws they would impose on us simple Paddies, without taking into consideration that we are only complex machines for recycling Guinness!

The way I see it, we (or any other nation outside of France and Germany) would never vote to give *total* control to Brussels and therefore, just like communism, this currency is doomed to fail in time.  The United States have one government controlling all, but to make this possible in Europe it would require the other fifteen nations to learn “The Banks of my own Lovely Lee“, “The Wild Rover” and “Oro se de bheath abhaile” in fifteen different languages, and get them all drinking Guinness by the gallon each day at Charlie´s Bar!

Maybe it’s possible, and the way forward.  Yes!  That is the answer for sure.  Control the total EU from Charlie´s in Lanzarote.

O´Sullivan’s John to the road you’ve gone, far away from your own native home…