So much for democracy. First the Dutch and French reject in a referendum the EU constitution, causing some panic among the ueber-bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg. What to do next? I know, says some bright spark: we'll just call it a treaty and push it through anyway. If it's not a constitution you don't need to offer your populace a referendum, do you? Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, gave the game away by saying that the treaty is identical to the rejected constitution.
The Labour party promises that we in the UK would have a referendum on the constitution. But hey, it's now a treaty so you don't need to have a referendum. Politics certainly is a dirty, dirty business, that's for sure. I used to be quite European in my outlook before I came to live in England. Nowadays, I can't really see much point in relegating a nation's sovereign powers to a large undemocratic and often corrupt Euro-Kremlin in Brussels.
Where was the EU condemnation regarding the Burmese regime's oppression of the recent monks' protests? Gordon Brown was strong in his condemnation of the junta's approach to the demonstrations, Bush was resolute as well. Yet out of Brussels not a word in support of the people of Burma. What, indeed, is the point of the EU? I suppose it has kept Germany under control which was one of the reasons for founding the EU in the first place. Small consolation.
The Labour party promises that we in the UK would have a referendum on the constitution. But hey, it's now a treaty so you don't need to have a referendum. Politics certainly is a dirty, dirty business, that's for sure. I used to be quite European in my outlook before I came to live in England. Nowadays, I can't really see much point in relegating a nation's sovereign powers to a large undemocratic and often corrupt Euro-Kremlin in Brussels.
Where was the EU condemnation regarding the Burmese regime's oppression of the recent monks' protests? Gordon Brown was strong in his condemnation of the junta's approach to the demonstrations, Bush was resolute as well. Yet out of Brussels not a word in support of the people of Burma. What, indeed, is the point of the EU? I suppose it has kept Germany under control which was one of the reasons for founding the EU in the first place. Small consolation.
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