Let Them Eat Cake On A Bicycle

Do the French really think we cheated in the cycling events? Apparently 70% of those polled in France think so. Wonderful isn't it! How do we deal with this particular slight? Do we complain to the President of the EU, that bastion of fairness Mr Barroso, and ask him to intervene? I don't think so as he assuredly thinks the French are right and probably still believes in Descartes on the question of gravitational pull. He also no doubt thinks like all socialists that the sun shines out of Jean Jacques Rousseau's fundament. So no joy is likely to come from the EU. Should we complain to the head of the International Olympic Committee? Somehow I doubt the Committee will be much impressed being    an autocratic organisation that brooks no dissension - witness the way they have taken over London's roads, the prohibition against the use of the Olympic symbol without a licence, the fierceness with which they have defended their branding and so on. No, there will be no help there. But who needs help anyway? Certainly not the British who have stood on their own two feet for hundreds and hundreds of years. Apart from the little digs against the French, (a) from one member of the British cycling committee who in answer to a question posed by a member of the French cycling team about the legality of our equipment explained that the reason for our success was because our wheels were more perfectly round than theirs and, (b) from Cameron saying that British cycling success has driven the French so mad they are accusing us of cheating, we should cheerfully ignore the frogs. Let them eat cake, I say, and next time they want some help as they will when the euro collapses, as it will before the end of the year, let's put the cost of doing so the return of our ancient lands that they stole from us and if they wont agree let's leave the EU.