Special Means Special

Although Team Starmer has repeatedly proclaimed that it wishes to reset relations with the beastly Euro-wogs to the extent of toning down the rah-rah as much as Conservative policy will allow, it seems that not everyone on the Continent has yet appreciated the mainland's position in all its crystalline clarity. An Italian MEP recently elected to the unenviable position of chairing the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly has demanded, if you please, that the master race should limit its options by defining what it requires from the lesser breeds. This is of course a typical case of Brusso-Strasbourg insensitivity towards the need for His Majesty's Government to face all ways at once provided its own face turns right. Nevertheless, one or two green shoots of realism did make an appearance; notably the recognition that His Majesty's Government is "an unavoidable partner" in the matter of wog-bombing, and that therefore some sort of special relationship is called for. Whether the beastly Euro-wogs are ready to assume the position of favourite ally in such a relationship while Britain plays mini-Murca remains as yet unclear.