tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520303675367700778.post5640360823453980395..comments2024-03-26T22:57:21.033+00:00Comments on Random Views: How to interest the public in the public interestDavid Beesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00393977902379776532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520303675367700778.post-20197290775301312352011-10-27T22:46:09.353+01:002011-10-27T22:46:09.353+01:00San, I think your point is well made and you may w...San, I think your point is well made and you may well be right, and I may be wrong, but the attitude I favour is that sometimes it's refreshing to see someone drop all that diplomatic verbiage and say what they actually mean. <br /><br />After all, the Euro problem is huge and intractable and the decisions this week have given about the best chance since its inception actually to solve it. That was the work of a number of European leaders, but most of all, of the French and Germans. Now I have no time for Sarko, but his team at least made an absolutely vital contribution. They knew how tough it was, they must have known how their own limitations sometimes made the job harder which must have got to their consciences, and they must have felt that a character sat on the sidelines, uninvolved in the core matter of the Euro itself, but yapping all the time, must have been desperately irritating. <br /><br />And what was Cameron saying? That it was urgent to find a solution. Does anyone really believe they didn't know that?<br /><br />No, Cameron was infuriating and needed to shut up. There's so much I can criticise Sarko for, but I'm afraid I sympathise with him on this one.<br /><br />As, without being by any stretch of the imagination a royalist, I revelled in the moment when Juan-Carlos of Spain told that brutal buffoon Hugo Chávez to shut up. 'Callate Chávez' - what a wonderful thing to say to that demagogue in love with the sound of his own voice.David Beesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00393977902379776532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520303675367700778.post-75981647231817714222011-10-27T20:48:50.863+01:002011-10-27T20:48:50.863+01:00I tried very hard to LIKE Sarko telling Cameron wh...I tried very hard to LIKE Sarko telling Cameron where to get off, "you've lost an excellent opportunity for keeping your mouth shut" is a great line, but I simply could not make myself approve of ANYBODY being so rude on the word stage. The language Sarko used is the sort of thing you'd expect the teenagers at Manshead to come up with.<br /><br />SanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com