Sunday, November 22, 2009

The "Giant Switzerland" Fallacy

"Europe has shown it would rather be a super-sized Switzerland."
Simon Hix, professor of European politics at the London School of Economics


These are both monkeys.
A gorilla is a "super-sized" monkey.

Moral: size counts 

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I think the idea is pretty clear, Why natter on? DS

2 comments:

oldfatherwilliam said...

Some of us attend here specifically to hear the natter. Hints and allusions are everywhere.

Kurz said...

Yes... it's clear we don't need über-carismatic leaders like Blair.

A Belgian with experience in reaching agreements is more desirable, even if he´s un-glamurous, boring and resembles ET's older brother.