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Date: 17 June 2008 12:58:49
Bimble, I think that the worse thing that could ever happen is that we will be forced to listen to "Cheesey" pop songs and shout exclamations in effeminate voices. There are worse things.... Being forced to watch Graham Norton or Paul o'Grady are others.
The other thing that seems to be causing unrest is the Lisbon Treaty. This is the EU's attempt to force through a new governance system following the rejection of the Nice Treaty. In no way is this the same thing reconstituted under a new name - so they tell us.
By rejecting it last week the Irish put an end to it becoming law. Unfortunately our proud leaders haven't taken this on board. The EU are saying that all other countries must ratify the Treaty without delay. How this will help they do not say as rejection by one country has supposedly killed the treaty off.
It is odd that our political leaders seem hell bent on ignoring the wishes of the people. This is not like them at all, after all Europe is a democracy not some Third World state that rigs elections or ignores the will of the people. How can we tell Zimbabwe that they are led by an evil dictator when our own, unelected, leaders are doing the same?
Do you think that many of our leaders are so scared that they'll lose any vote on European integration that that is why they won't allow us to have a referendum on this? What would happen to them if 3 or 4 countries refused to ratify thev treaty? Why they'd just carry on forcing new versions of the same treaty onto us until either we said yes or they were completely defeated and their dream died with them.
Maybe the EU is all about do as I say, not as I do.
History Today:
1239 : The future King Edward I is born - bad news for the Welsh and Scots.
1703 : John Wesley was born. Great joy for Methodists every where.
1775 : British troops win the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major battle of the American War of Independence. Proof that one victory does not win a war.
1940 : 3000 troops and refugees die after the RMS Lancastria is sunk by German bombers. This is Britain's worst maritime disaster. You may not have heard about it before, after all very few rich and famous people were
invloved.
1972 : Burglars break into the Democratic Party offices in Washington D.C. We know this better as "Watergate", the hotel their office was based in. Not to be confused with Contragate, Nannygate etc - these were mere child's play in comparison.