German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, today delivered an historic address to both Houses of Parliament, hailing Germany’s “close partnership” with the UK, and making it clear she wants Britain to remain a strong voice in Europe.
Who should run the country? The multilingual DPM, the less experienced Mili, or someone who can't work headphones? pic.twitter.com/ALT9vsgGws
— ianpatterson99 (@ianpatterson99) February 27, 2014
Here’s the official photo of Clegg meeting Merkel:
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excellent, she knows she wants us! 😀
That picture is a shoe-in for the front cover of next week’s Private Eye.
NC and AM probably spent the entire meeting conversing in German. According to twitter this is bad, and showing off….
CAPTION.
Angela — ” Send me your CV and come and see me after May. We migh be able to find something for you. Maybe a job in which you have demonstrated ability and achievement? Did you say you had experience as a ski instructor?”
Cogload – absolutely, and what’s more, this Merkel woman does it all the time.
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“Gott sei Dank – ein Englischer Staatsmann wer Europa versteht.”
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Vot iz ritten on ze bottom of a bottle in England?
Open the other end.