The Slog piece on how appalling Microsoft is continues to build….record hits, and 107 comments the last time I looked. This would tend to suggest that the world is replete with people who despise Big M, and seem willing to – at the very least – take part in some form of customer expression of global displeasure. We need more of this.

In the meantime, the EU has abandoned the decimal counting system in favour of one based on a unit of 25 by 7, whereby – in the European Assembly – a group cannot be a group until it has 25 members…and each group must contain at least 7 nationalities. I don’t remember the Baader Meinhof Group abiding by this rule: but of course this is merely the EC’s way of promoting the rainbow of democracy by making it as difficult as possible for minority ‘groups’ to share power with, er…those who don’t like minority dissension, and tend to regard it as a thinking mistake due to politically incorrect deviant weirdo syndrome.

What I must point out here, however, is that sevens into twenty-five go three and four sevenths. So the 25 Monster Raving Loony groupies are going to require a grand total of at the very least 31 members in order to be considered a bona fide group….that is, 25 Ukippers and six unrelated independents of six nationalities in order to qualify for something or other which, by now, you have doubtless forgotten.

On this basis, one of your number might be the sole Luxembourg representative elected on a platform of demanding the death penalty for Jean-Claude Juncker; or another could wind up being an Italian in favour of shredding every third postman.

But as luck would have it, thanks to UKip’s miracle Nigfar ingredient, I can reveal that this afternoon the Party has been accepted as having formed a group. It consists of UKIP, Italy’s Five Star Movement, Lithuania’s Order and Justice Party, the Sweden Democrats, the Free Citizen’s Party of the Czech Republic, the Latvian Farmers’ Union and an Independent MEP from France.

The Group’s first single Peppo-Beppo-Litho-Demo-Czecho-Farmo-Froggo Chirpy-chirpy Cheep-cheep will be released from prison on bail at some point in the near future. I must away now in order to better understand the EU reform programme of Lithuanians for Justice, and the complete manifesto of the Latvian Farmers’ Union.

Earlier at The Slog: