French President Nicholas Sarkozy described Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, as stupid, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, as simply following Mr Sarkozy’s lead and Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, as “absent.” By the end of the lunch, he had also cast the new American president, Barack Obama, as inexperienced and not up to speed on the issue of climate change.

But the best was yet to come. Mr Sarkozy, joking about president Obama’s planned June visit, said “I am going to ask him to walk on the English Channel, and he’ll do it”, referring to Obama’s being touted as a Savior by his more ardent admirers.

Sarkozy is one of a very few politicians of any stature in the world who speaks honestly and says what he thinks and manages to make at least some sense while doing so. He has a big ego and seems to believe that his opinion is invariably the right one, which means he pushes some poor ideas on occasion, but he definitely is refreshing. He also tends to anger those he insults, but his comments tend to spark some pretty revealing responses.

All in all, we learn more about Europes leaders because of his outbursts and improvident remarks than we would otherwise.

Geert Wilders needs to achieve the political power of Nicholas Sarkozy as leader of the Nederlands. With two such leaders in Europe, maybe Europe will have a chance of survival. If in addition, Nick Griffins BNP were to gain some seats in British Parliament, it would force Labour to stop capitulating to and appeasing the Muslims, and if not reverse the Islamization of England, at least bring it to a halt. There’s nothing that frightens entrenched political parties more into doing the right thing than growing competition.

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