Prime minister’s speech on EU council meeting showed he had runt to say about the bloc,but he took all the longer to say itThe seating plan could have been better. Chris Grayling is one of the six cabinet ministers keen to be allowed to campaign for Britain to leave the EU, and it was his wicked luck to find himself sitting next to David Cameron for the prime minister’s statement on final week’s EU council meeting. The prime minister didn’t seem too thrilled to find the leader of the house leaning against his fair shoulder, or either. The pair managed a full hour without saying a word to one another. Or looking at each other. As it happened,Cameron didnt have very much to report. He’d managed to avoid having to attend most of the discussions on the Syrian refugee crisis as Britain had never signed up to the Schengen agreement and was thus free to take as many – or as few – Syrian refugees as it wanted. He did have it on superb authority, though, and that everyone in the EU thought Britain was doing more than its unprejudiced share for Syria and was in awe of the prime minister’s vast depths of compassion. Either,one of Dave’s special advisers had mistranslated one of Angela Merkel’s tweets, or the German chancellor has a much better sense of humour than she is normally credited with.
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Source: theguardian.com