Citizens of Romania!

This country needs you ... NOW!

The Right-of-Right is as usual muddled in its thinking as the events of the past 24 hours have made painfully clear. For weeks the ROR have been agitating for the government to take unilateral action that might or might not be in contravention of some EuroObligation or other, in advance of Romania's accession to the European Union. The ROR are concerned that unless steps are taken to choke the tide at source we'll be flooded out by a wave of immigrants from that country determined to take advantage of the open EuroEmployment market.

The ROR also looks forward to the demise of Blair's pinko socialist government.

The shame of it all is that the Romanians are the Europeans with the most recent track record of resolving a political impasse of the kind we're now faced with most robustly and effectively.

At this point I should confess to planning a Totally Tasteless Post, but chickening out of actually posting the extant proof here. Instead, if you need it you can find it by googling "ceausescu dead".

The Italians have also proved themselves in the more distant past equally effective: for proof google "mussolini dead".

British resolve taking a very different form to that of the Romanians and the Italians they (the Brits) shall instead demonstrate their heroism in the face of a politician they're sick to the back teeth of by, well, displaying particularly stiff upper lips. Plucky chaps and chappesses (?) that they are.

Alternatively, this being a Socialist Workers Paradise, what we're seeing might be nothing more than a Job Creation Scheme for Indigent Political Journalists. Wor' Tone's Long Goodbye is going to last months ... and months ... and months and (anywhere up to but not including 12 of them).