The EU is, as everyone knows, a byword for probity, accountability and efficiency, thus it is rather unfortunate that if you do a google search on "banana republic" the EU only makes number 3 on the list. After all this is only fair - everyone knows that the "Bent Bannana" story is exaggerated and that the banana wars with the US are the EU standing up for the little guy. And surely the problems concerning the auditability (or not) of the EU finances is surely no reason to call the whole enterprise a banana republic so of course it would be deeply hurtful for nasty Eurosceptics to try and googlebomb this phrase.