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Those meddling Europeans. Will they never learn about their unheeded and unwanted interference in our domestic matters? Clearly not, if Brandon Lewis' response to the Council of Europe's report calling for greater fiscal freedoms and devolution of real powers for English councils is anything to go by. Adding fuel to the fire, one of these Congress rapporteurs was a fur-hatted, vodka-swilling Russki. ‘We welcome free debate, but we are not going to take lectures on this from Putin's United Russia Party,' Mr Lewis stormed. How very dare these meddling foreigners talk about the difficulty of providing essential services under the huge pressure of austerity measures? Let alone have the sheer bloody gall to prattle on about the iniquities of the Barnett Formula and central grant funding, or poke their interfering Euronoses into the fiscal constraints of council tax referendums? At the time of the Munich crisis, prime minister Neville Chamberlain referred to the issue of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia as a ‘quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing'. Well, these know-nothing foreigners can sling their internationalist hook into the nearest convenient river, the Seine, the Rhine or the Costa Del Sol for all Diary cares. Up yours Delors! Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? We don't need your pathetic lessons. Not while we have English red blood coursing through our veins, to protect our sceptred isle. There will always be a Brandon.

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Lewis refuses to take lessons from Putin

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