Gillard Annoys EU Away

Like swatting at a obnoxious mozzie, Australia dodged a bullet by brilliantly sending it's most annoying citizen off to chase away the EU! As usual [as any of us who have been able to listen to her speaches for more than 10 minutes knows] Julia Guillard managed to have the same affect on the EU recently.
In an amazing move to distance itself from the EU for World financial reasons, Australia has done so, and then some. After a lecture to the EU and World leaders on how they should look to her Nation as an example of how to organize their finances, the EU was extremely annoyed and has [fortunately] now turned it's back on Austrlia.
GOOD.

I remember, while on a visit to Canberra, I was speaking to a security guard at Parliament. As we looked across the lawns towards the Old Parlaiment buliding I noticed ,what appeared to be, a large blue hot air baloon with gold stars on it. "Is that an EU hot air baloon?" I asked. "Yes", replied the security guard, "they've been trying to inflate it all morning without much luck".
As we watched they never could quite get it off of the ground, let's hope such is the case with the EU itself in Canberra.

[Sorry; balloon is the correct spelling.]