Yes. I agree. Hubris is not justified, we all know what follows it.

otoh the triumphalism should be reined in, as you don’t quite say. To reign would be something else – pretty much what they hope to achieve, in fact.

(NB According to the Iron Law of pedants, this comment should contain a worse spelling or grammar gaffe than the one I just pointed out. But damned if I can see it.)

If there is a criticism – that’s it. For example, just before gangsters decided to threaten the Canadian minister with death.

CBC News – Canada – Immigration minister faces threats over anti …
23 Apr 2008 … However, current immigration law allows foreign exotic dancers to apply for temporary work permits to fill labour market shortages in Canada …
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/23/finley-security.html

The same gangsters reviewed the relationship with the Brit Ministerial version – …err.. positively.

I was there when crooks were dragging suitcases, (yes, suitcases !) of fake documents to the British embassy in Bucharest.

I remember one struggling sausage, and I nudge my international man of mystery chum ( no agency names) and I say “I bet you a sail-boat to a dollar, he’s going to the British embassy”.

He was – thing is, post one-legged builder articles, the Brits gave up on it, and it got worse, not better, so why give up on such a promising hilarious disaster of compulsive incompetence & complicity?

Gregory