Government Buildings got what it deserved recently when an enormous German tour bus passing by slowed to give its occupants a photo opportunity and, no doubt, to explain the many benefits those working inside had received for their constituents from membership in the European Union.

Startled onlookers, however, were somewhat taken aback to see that the name of the touring company, printed in large, viewable-by-Bertie letters down the bus's sides, was (ahem) Fucker.

Perhaps a little premonition on the side of the Germans as to our pending vote on the Nice Treaty.