An interesting debacle is shaping up in France. With a public referendum looming in France over the European constitution, and with public confidence in the vote dropping below 50% (which would scuttle the whole thing), the EU has decided to do the most rational thing to get everything back on track: bribe the sons-a-bitches.

Yes, the EU is formally deferring a minimum duty on all French wine to help bribe the French into loving their EU slavemasters kindly friends in Brussels. No word yet on whether the EU will extend this duty moratorium to include baguettes, brie, and industrial actions.

The most interesting thing for me, is juxtaposing this whole affair next to something we can all relate to, Super Nanny. Not sure if you get this program, but a lovely dominatrix nanny goes around sorting everyone’s rotten children. In the beginning of the program, the child demands, and gets what he wants (its always little boys!). By the end, he is totally in line and everything is like a bad Sound of Music repeat. Of course, bribing said children to do what the nanny wants is a big no-no.

So if the French get a nice tax break on booze, whats next for Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland and the Czech Republic; all who are due to vote on the constitution soon? Do the beaurocrats in Brussels think they can booze up the entire continent, to vote for their grand vision of harmonious integration?

And more importantly, doesn’t the EU realise that by bribing the French, the British will want more, which means the Czechs will want just as much, then the Danes will stamp their feet and refuse to each their brussles sprouts unless they get as much as the Brits; and so on, and so on, and so on.

Until of couse this is all over, then the French go on strike to retroactively get as much as the Dutch ended up getting.

Interested to see how this one plays out.