EU to probe Northern Rock lifeline!

Those snout-nosed number-crunchers from Brussels have been drawn into sniffing around the emergency government funding given to Northern Rock last year, after it was hard hit by the credit crunch. Some Danish bankers have complained to these bureaucrats that the British government is not playing fair.

All I'd say is that before these guys pick up their pens they start to look at the appalling accounting system within the confines of the Brussels Bureaucracy. Otherwise they'll look a bit like Robert Mugabe probing the London Mayoral election results, should there be a complaint.

The EU is in a mess financially, no accounts signed off for 13 years, and a simpering President, Jose Manuel Barroso, who no doubt knows how the brown envelope culture works, in complete denial.

Whatever the Northern Rock fiasco has created, it pales into insignificance compared to the collossal corruption emanating from Brussels!