The tale goes back to the September plenary at the European Parliament where French MEP Rachida Dati (UMP), formerly a minister in Sarkozy's government, forgot that she still had her mini-microphone switched on (for a programme on M6) and starting telling a friend about how dull life is as an MEP: 'I am stuck in the Hemicycle building and I can't bear it. I just can't stand it. I think I'll explode before I get to the end of my term of office… I just have to sit here and come up with witty...