Reports in the media this week have been saying that the EuroDisney theme park near Paris is falling apart and losing money. This has prompted a very witty columnist in the UK, Richard Littlejohn, to compare the fortunes of EuroDisney with that of the EU. Here are some of my favourite lines; Widespread protests erupted today over the decline of the ailing Euroland theme park. Once Europe’s most popular destination, in recent years it has become a byword for failure, fraud and corruption. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs had to be abandoned because the unions insisted on 28 dwarfs being employed on full-time contracts to cover for emergencies and public holidays. Kinnochio, the adventures of a Euro puppet whose nose grew and grew the more lies he told, never achieved the popularity of the Disney original, although he regularly managed to make the audience fall about laughing. High Street UK, which was designed as a European version of Main Street USA, went into receivership. Those premises which are not boarded up are now occupied almost exclusively by bookmakers, coffee chains, charity stores and pound shops. Visitors also complained that they were excluded from some of the most popular rides, including the European Gravy Train, which runs twice a month between Brussels and Strasbourg. Modelled on the luxury Venice-Simplon Orient Express, seats on the Gravy Train are available only to politicians, senior bureaucrats and their staff, who all travel free.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:32:30 +0000
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