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…

Just some thoughts there!

Following on from my blog post yesterday, now it seems that the Irish government has only guaranteed 6 banks and left out the other banks operating in Ireland, which is unfair competition – but nice try.

The truth is if the EU or the UK did the same to any Irish bank abroad, the Irish would have gone mad in Brussels, and rightly so. The opposition in Ireland are trying to dance all over the government, with easy hitting, claiming they (the government) are not sure of what they are doing. They are probably correct to some extent, but we are in uncharted waters here and the government should be supported in every way possible, and for sure they are doing the best they can. Even Cameron said in the UK yesterday that they have to row the boat together with Labour, because this is an unreal situation and there is no room for politics. He will be the next Prime Minister of the UK, and the sooner the better!

As regards the EU, now you can see how important it was to vote “NO” to the Lisbon Treaty. The EU are right to take the government to task about the foreign banks operating in Ireland, and I would hope that whether they had control over us or not, we would support all the banks operating in Ireland equally, just to be right. We should be happy to do what is right regardless, but the thought of having to get permission from the EU to wipe our a*se, well, f*ck that!

This is a classic situation where we are happy to co-operate with our EU neighbours, even at our own cost from time to time, for the benefit of the common good, but if it comes to your a*se or ours, good luck son, and definitely when there are important decisions to be made in a hurry and stupid EU bureaucracy is standing on the fence thinking “too slow Brussels and Adios”, if it comes to it. Brian Cowen, as I said before, should stand up and say:

“We (the Irish nation) are happy to work with Brussels to a point, but if that´s not possible, we will, and are not afraid to, work on our own. We have enough wealth and talent to survive and a great belief in our own best asset (our people, and their strength).”

David Cameron also said today that if the Irish haven’t ratified the Lisbon Treaty before he gets into government, he will also put the Treaty to the English population – and I will bet any man that if that happens the English will vote “NO” as well. The sooner we get Obama and Cameron into office, the better for the world as a whole. Not HOLE!!!