“ … As UK Deputy Prime Minister, I am delighted and relieved to know that the EU financial services brief is in such expert hands.’” So the UK’s financial contribution is about to rise again, is it? I’d prefer a UKIP MEP in that position, myself!

Is this actually a powerful committe? And if it is, should we be glad that a Lib Dem from Britain is chairing it?

Another Huhne prediction that will be wrong: energy prices will not be as high as would have been the case, had it not been for his policies. Ponder that one during the power cuts to come.

We should be grateful for Mr. Clegg’s assurance that the Chair of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee is “such a prominent and powerful position on the international scene”. Otherwise, ignorant sceptics might have had the temerity to wonder what the European Parliament actually knows or does about economic and monetary affairs, or to make ribald comparisons with bean-counters, cheese-tasters and lollipop ladies. We doubting Thomases have certainly been put in our place.

And to think that a British Liberal Democrat has risen to such dizzying heights of influence and prestige! Baroness Ashton had better look to her laurels…

Fabulous! Great news for Britain. A strongly pro-EU Lib Dem in charge of a committee which, along with the even more unaccountable Council has ‘responsibility for such matters as the economic and monetary policies of the EU, taxation and competition policies, free movement of capital and the regulation of financial services (banks, insurance, pension funds, asset/fund management, accounting, international monetary and financial systems etc.)’

The odious Huhne must be feeling a right ninny and Well Done dave!

Rejoice Rejoice!

Let me make a prediction .
If Huhne drops a bar of soap in the shower soon he’ll be buggered .