March 23, 2005
AT LEAST THE HUN ALTERNATES BETWEEN YOUR FEET AND YOUR THROAT:
Chirac stabs Blair in back (NIC CECIL, 3/24/05, Daily Sun)
BACK-STABBING Jacques Chirac last night repaid Tony Blair for helping him by trying to sabotage Britain’s £3billion EU rebate.The double betrayal came only hours after Mr Blair rescued the French President from angry French unions.
FIRST Mr Chirac joined calls for Brussels to axe our refund.
THEN he accused British and American economic policy of exporting death to the Third World.
Mr Blair had been banking on France to help save the 20-year-old rebate.
Even with the rebate Britain pays more than TWO AND A HALF TIMES as much as the French.
Without it, the Treasury’s share of running the EU would be a staggering 14 TIMES that of France.
Yet Chirac ganged up with other EU leaders and told the PM: “The rebate is no longer justified today.”
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 23, 2005 11:35 PM
He went on to rub it in by accusing Britain and America of fuelling dangerous global conflict through free-market economic policies.
He claimed they create an explosive poverty gap between the West and the developing world.
So once again, the solution to a problem is to drag down the successful instead of raising up the rest by helping them be like us.
Posted by: Pat H at March 23, 2005 11:45 PMPat: Yes, that's always the way of the looters.
Posted by: jd watson at March 23, 2005 11:51 PMThe brief period of Anglo-French alliance in the 20th century was clearly an anomally.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 24, 2005 12:12 AMWhat was that old story about helping the scorpion to cross the river...
Posted by: John at March 24, 2005 12:41 AMNo real surprise there. A paranoid crook is always a paranoid crook, no matter how well he dresses.
But, heh, heh, I wonder if this Chirac broadside is just what Blair needs to put himself over the top in the coming election.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at March 24, 2005 2:13 AMpaging Michael Howard.....
Posted by: cornetofhorse at March 24, 2005 8:50 AMThe Tory Wets and Upper Class Twits can be guaranteed to defend Chirac on this one so Howard won't be able to say 'Boo!'
There is nothing newsworthy about Chirac stabbing someone in the back. The headline really should be when Chirac doesn't stab someone in the back.
Posted by: bart at March 24, 2005 9:57 AM