Does the Anorak Man like the CAP?

Writing in the London Times, Anatole Kaletsky as much as claims that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern backed Tony Blair's position at the EU summit last week that any reduction in Maggie's rebate would have to be linked to an orientation of the EU budget away from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP):

The Prime Minister [Blair], far from being isolated in Brussels, was explicitly supported by Sweden and the Netherlands in the budget vote in Brussels and was quietly encouraged by the other Scandinavian countries, Italy and Ireland and, most importantly, by the conservative leadership which is likely to take control of Germany within the next few months.

Now this might be true, but it's not what Bertie Ahern is saying in Dublin:

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has said he totally disagrees with the position of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on the EU Budget, which led to stalemate at last week's European summit. The Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, claimed in the Dáil that the attack on the Common Agricultural Policy by Mr Blair was 'absolutely outrageous'. Mr Ahern said that he agreed with him, saying he totally disagreed with Mr Blair on the issue, and said he believes the British presentation of the CAP was 'dishonest'.

Not unrelatedly, Bertie's former finance minister and now EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy didn't seem to think that Friday's meeting was that bad:

Referring to the tone of Friday's meeting of EU leaders, Mr McCreevy said it sounded no worse than the exchanges at a Fianna Fáil Cumann [local organisation] meeting.

Is it a tradition at cumann meetings to take one position inside the room, and then go outside and say you took another?