All those delicate Victorian matrons in the American press who had a fit of the vapors at Justice Alito mouthing “not true” at the President of the United States are advised to steer well clear of this latest example of lèse-majesté. Euro-MP Nigel Farage welcomes the “President” of “Europe,” a rum Belgian johnnie called Herman van Rompuy, to the European Parliament:

You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, that we’re all going to ask, is: Who are you? I’d never heard of you, nobody in Europe had ever heard of you. . . . You come from Belgium, which is pretty much a non-country . . .

Much Euro-jeering ensues.