Immediate danger has receded
If you are concerned that a slightly drunk president will accidentally fall on the nuclear button and spoil your summer holiday in Saint Tropez, I am pleased to tell you that the immediate danger has passed.
You might get sunburned, turn lobster red, and regret your holiday 20 years later when you have a terrible skin disease, but at least you won’t be zapped into dust and washed away by the tides, just because M Sarkozy accidentally launched nuclear war on the world.
It does make you wonder though. I can imagine that at the ‘world leaders summits’ it is reasonably common for all the world leaders to be, let’s say, a bit tipsy. Which does open the possibility of some less trustworthy nation taking advantage of this sudden lack of world leadership to launch some terrible calamity upon us all.
Perhaps the waiters refuse to serve more wine after the first course, in an attempt to stop a potential disaster. Or possibly they are only allowed three ‘toasts’ per event, since toasting each of 25 important leaders will leave even the sturdiest President incapable of making important decisions.
Or maybe Presidents and Vice-Presidents agree in advance who is going to drink each evening - like myself and Mrs B when we are going out for the evening and need to know who will drive home. “I couldn’t drink last time George, this time it’s your turn.”
Have Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth spent the last 10 years arguing about ‘whose turn it is to not drink’, each time they call an important reception for a foreign dignitary?, I wonder.
Anyway I must get back to virus collection now, as my plans for World Domination have taken a great step forward.
