Liberal Burblings

Sometimes I hate this country – or at least the prevailing winds of the media in it.

Take Baroness Ashton’s elevation to be the EU’s top foreign representative. This is a fantastic achievement for this country! Fantastic! There are 27 countries in the EU, who could have had one of their foreign ministers promoted to the position, but ours was chosen.

That is absolutely great! So when the EU is represented around the world, it will be by a Brit! Fantastic! And it’s a woman – even more brilliant!

But what do we get at home? Rejoicing? A display of pride? Not on your nelly. Just take this typical article from the Express. Of course, because journalists had never heard of her, they assume there’s something wrong here. It’s a “stitch-up”. She’s a Labour “Crony”. She worked for CND – sub-text for “reds under the beds”. She’s “inexperienced”. It was a “grubby compromise, brokered by Brown”. Down in the mouth, depressive bollocks.

It reminds me of the words of Dara O’Briain. He says that Britons are living longer now than ever before. That’s a wonderful thing. But Britain is the only country in the world where that story would be covered with the headline: “PENSIONS TIME BOMB”.