Yet the only leaders mentioned in the piece are Barroso, Blair, and Sarkozy. No difficulty in believing they were for Merkel. No one else's opinion seems to matter.
This is just more conventional wisdom from a know-all British journalist (Nicholas Watt). Doesn't matter which newspaper, they all look at Europe through the same kaleidoscope in which the bits always form the same pattern: Brits and the free market know best. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
What annoys me is connecting Bliar and Sarkozy with 'reforms' without putting the word "reforms" in scare quotes. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
All part of the narrative that casts free-marketers as the forces of progress and the left as died-in-the-wool conservatives. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
