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An early revue sketch, circa 1960, by the late Peter Cook had his famous crank, E. L. Whisty, sending prescient warning letters to various world leaders -- but always a little late in the day. "What did I tell Winston in 1940?" he would ask his long-suffering wife. "Watch the Germans, I said. Keep your eye on that Hitler. A slippery customer if ever I saw one. Never got a reply, of course."
In the 2002 version of this sketch, I get to play Churchill. As the resident Euro-skeptic, who has been warning since 1989 of the rise of a rival European superpower, I find myself bombarded these days with philippics from television talk shows, radio phone-ins, op-eds, e-mail, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Over-Skeptics: With the Europeans, a little patience, a little...