[Paladin2]

I wonder how well this will go down with Germany’s interest in getting the EU’s finances straightened out.

[jimbo123]

Maybe the germans will send in the panzers again.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That calls to my mind a passage from Dickens's "Pickwick Papers":

'Well; but come,' said Mr. Smangle; 'this is dry work. Let's rinse our mouths with a drop of burnt sherry; the last-comer shall stand it, Mivins shall fetch it, and I'll help to drink it. That's a fair and gentlemanlike division of labour, anyhow. Curse me!'

Where Germany is represented by the "last-comer."