Widening The Channel

This has been building for a while now:

Tony Blair yesterday risked a fresh row when he branded the policies of Jacques Chirac, the French president, as "dangerous" and "pathetic".

Marriage counselors will tell you that they can spot the doomed marriages very early. It's not the ones who fight, or even disagree. It's the ones who show contempt or ridicule for each other, and use words such as "pathetic."

Methinks Britain ain't gonna join the EU after all.