Anne McIntosh is at it again. As chairman of the EFRA Committee, she managed to get through the entire horsemeat crisis without mentioning the EU.
Now, her committee has produced a report on the winter floods, covering amongst other things the flooding of the Somerset Levels. And, despite the central role of EU law and policies, it should come as no surprise that two words are completely missing from the report: European Union.
It is hard to believe that this can be an accident. More likely, it is a morbid clinical condition â the total inability of MPs to recognise their own impotence. As a result, they have developed chronic euro-blindness, an illness that renders the presence of the European Union and all its works completely invisible.
Mostly, the affliction affects MPs, but it also affects working members of the media and other groups. The illness is probably incurable but, unfortunately, is not fatal. We do feel, however, that it should be a capital offence.
