on the eu budget I don't believe the view that understanding how economies work is difficult. In fact, it's dead simple. Take the UK economy. There's more going out of the country's coffers than going in, so it stands to reason you cut the first bit and increase the second until the figures balance up again. Bosh. Job done. Where this all falls down is when it comes to Europe. There, they take the opposite view. These overpaid eurocrats in Brussels with their free first class travel are so separated from the real world they don't realise there's a bleedin' great economic crisis raging all around them. As they look out their first class carriage windows while sipping their Chateau Fatcat they probably think everything's going great guns, so let's jack up the budget some more. When you point out to the eurocrats that, actually, our economy is knackered and we're cutting libraries, and there's no way we're going to spend a penny more on their bleedin' first class travel, they claim it's not going to them it's going to east Europe to help boost jobs. Considering half of Poland is running our coffee shops, I'd have thought we're doing a bleedin' sight better job providing work for east Europeans than any EU grants can do, so they ought to give it to us… It's a mad house… Same again mate, a pint of Staropramen…