It
was very kind of Donald Tusk to tell the EU27 that they should endeavour not to
humiliate the UK or its Prime Minister again when she went before them to admit
that she hadn’t done the homework they set her last time to produce a plan for
her next steps. It might be argued,
mind, that feeling it necessary to tell someone not to humiliate someone else
is somewhat humiliating in itself, and it’s certainly rather patronising, but I’m sure
that his motives were entirely well-intentioned. As it happened his efforts didn’t exactly
work out well anyway; having failed to produce a good excuse (or indeed any
sort of excuse – even claiming that the dog ate her plan might have been
better) she was always going to be forced to accept something which she had
repeatedly said she didn’t want and couldn’t accept. And being made to sit in an anteroom for
hours whilst others decide your fate is never exactly going to be an exercise
in generating pride and self-respect.
There
is a problem, though: did Tusk breach her human rights under some convention or
other by trying to prevent her humiliation?
I mean, if someone really wants to be humiliated, and enjoys it as much
as she obviously does, what right does anyone have to try and prevent it? It’s almost enough to make me think that
perhaps the Brexiteers have got it right after all: how dare the EU interfere
with the inalienable right of the UK to repeatedly humiliate itself on the
world stage? For once at least the PM has stood up to these tyrannical
dictators and defended the right of the UK to be mocked and laughed at. Another successful outcome to a summit.
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