Regions who see the potential and invest....
...certainly help to keep a flagging show, based on the Ratner mark II business model, on the road.
But once wee Micky has insulted all the current members of the local cabinet as well as their better half, even the densest of EU regional politicians eventually sees the light.
And one or two of them even reach the nirvana of true enlightenment and begin to ponder what is known in the chanceries of Europe as the Ryanair-paradox:
"if thatīs how he treats important people like ourselves, how does he treat our hard up citizens when they try to board his planes ?"