Douglas McWilliams, the chief executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, is taking on the European Commission in a row over trade on Twitter. “Tweeting is a dangerous occupation,” he notes, “ask Kevin Pietersen.”
As well as trying to eat his words after sending rude text messages about his England cricket team-mates, KP has also famously been parodied in a fake Twitter account.
McWilliams identifies “the Kevin Pietersen of the European Commission” as Jonathan Faull, director general for the Internal Market and Services, and his sidekick Gergely Polner, head of outreach for the European Parliament in the UK.
The two eurocrats have been trying to disprove, on Twitter, a CEBR report that shows Britain exports more to non-EU countries than to the EU.
McWilliams says: “You would hope that with the European economy in the trouble that it is, European officials would have better things to do than wasting their time trying unsuccessfully to smear people.”
