Coronabonds – If the situation wasn’t so serious, you’d piss yourselves laughing. Oh what the heck, go on; have a good laugh anyway at the absurdity of the ‘all for one, one for all’ European Union.
After much back-biting and in-fighting, the EU has finally agreed on a £430 billion rescue package to give aid to member states devastated by the appalling Coronavirus pandemic. The arguments rage on though, and there’s clearly still an awful lot of bitterness and resentment rattling around in the Union of Brotherly Love, most of it, it appears, being levelled at the poor old Netherlands. Yes the unfortunate Dutch are being vilified for blocking demands from (amongst others) Spain, France, and in particular Italy, for so-called ‘Coronabonds’, whereby debt would be ‘mutualised’ (ie; shared, or pooled) between the nations of the EU.
The flak is fairly flying in the direction of Amsterdam. Portugal’s PM Antonio ‘Cheeky Cunt’ Costa has even had the gall to question the future role of the Dutch in the EU. He stated ‘there is at least one country in the Eurozone that resists understanding that a shared common currency implies a common effort. Naturally I’m referring to The Netherlands’. Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra is standing firm however, and insisting that ‘The Netherlands is and will remain opposed to (Corona)bonds’.
Well can you really blame the Dutch? Coronabonds; now there’s a fucking brilliant idea if ever I heard one, an idea whose time most definitely has not come. Profligate countries could go on a spending spree and run up ever greater mountains of debt, and then saddle the fiscally prudent with the responsibility of repaying huge chunks of what’s owed by the spendthrifts. Great idea if you’re Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Greek or Italian; an absolute fucking nightmare if you’re Dutch or German.
All for one and one for all, huh? What a joke. For the most part, it’s much more a case of ‘what’s yours is mine, what’s mine’s my own’. Watching this shambles unfold, I cannot for the life of me understand why so many in the UK remain so utterly devoted to the idea of scrambling back aboard the Eurotanic, as it’s starting to display all the signs of being holed below the waterline. I’m just grateful for the fact that we’ve gotten out by the skin of our teeth. Things are going to get pretty bad for us here in the UK, but at least we won’t have those cunts in Brussels thinking that they’re free to dip their sticky fingers into our coffers anymore.
And in closing, I’d say this to the amiable, industrious and prudent Dutch; when this Covid-19 horror is over, come and join us. Leave all those cunts in southern and eastern Europe standing there with their begging bowls extended, and in the meantime, keep telling them to stick their Coronabonds up their arses.
Nominated by Ron Knee
