UN-believable developments

I was just reading about how the German chancellor is under pressure because of his failure to secure a seat on the UN Security Council.

You’ve got to feel sorry for a governmental leader, no one is every happy with anything you do – get the seat on the UN Security Council and they’ll only want something else.

But I never even knew that they held a vote for the thing, like some sort of geopolitical Eurovision Song Contest. I wonder how they go about deciding who they’re going to vote for – a round of singing, naturally, but Friedrich Merz probably lost a bit of support in the swimsuit round, he’s very stringy looking. But tall, by all accounts.

The fact that Trinidad and Tobago, Kyrgyzstan and Zimbabwe won seats over Germany must feel like a slap in the face. Austria and Portugal they can perhaps cope with, but who’s been posting all that cash to Kyiv? People can be so ungrateful.

There must be some sort of consolation prize that Germany can be awarded with to save a bit of diplomatic face. I don’t know how these things work, but you can imagine this year’s UN Christmas party taking place at a nice outdoor market in Augsburg.