Well readers as promised news of the Prime Minsiters meeting with the er..Prime Minister.
Fresh from watching Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-0 at Stamford Bridge (Boyko is a Chelsea fan, someone has to follow West Londons Prima Donna's I suppose) our hero attended a 400 strong dinner at the Bulgarian Embassy during which the abolition of dual nationality for Bulgarians was ruled out (that went down well with the audience), the ex Tsars son apparently praised GERB's economic policies, and Borissov alluded to the fact that Western European/Nato intelligence agencies are now semi-willing to talk to their Bulgarian counterparts, after a long period when the Bulgarian security services gave a whole new meaning to 'dodgy'.
In his tete a tete with our beloved one eyed Scottish person, Boyko apparently raised tourism and trade as major areas for cooperation.He appeared to secure some commitment that immigration would not become an issue in the UK general election (dont know how that is achievable !). Support was also apparently forthcoming for Bulgaria's below 3% budget deficit (so thats why there are buggar all public works projects and the EU money has not been spent because it might get stolen).Since Prudence has become imprudent, rightly, to stop the banking system collapsing, its difficult to justify such fiscal rectitude in the Balkans, though contrasted with the insane 12% Greek deficit it looks good.
So all in all great PR opportunity for Boiko in the Bulgarian media, coverage in the UK media virtually zero.Actual relevance to prevailing problem solving lower than a snakes belly.
Thats politics folks !.
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