Mr. Barry Andrews:

The Senator is asking the questions here. Frankly, I do not think most of this has anything to do with the triple lock but I will answer if he is going to ask these questions. As to groupthink, there is a tendency to groupthink in the European Union, yes. It used to be said about the Brits that they did not necessarily do the right thing but they all did the same thing. There might be something like that because I am seeing a massive reduction in development spending. We are all going for hard power right now and soft power being left go of is a dramatic mistake. There is groupthink around that.