British bulldog isolated and savaged by French poodle
The poodle in question was, of course, Nicolas Sarkozy — Angela Merkel’s then pet poodle — and Cameron yelped his way out of Brussels after receiving a mauling at the December summit that hammered out the fiscal compact treaty.
Cameron returned to the Commons to be cheered to the rafters by Tories — and boycotted by his coalition partner and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who refused to attend parliament as his party was so angry at Britain being shut out of the deal.
