| Well... I'm torn myself. Don't know how I'd vote if I were French or Dutch. I have a sneaking hope that it will be "No" in France, just to give Greasy Jacques a pain in the ass, and also because the French left is correct in saying that it poses a threat to the welfare state. And maybe Europe needs a breather after the expansion. At the same time, a "No" vote will inevitably be construed by a lot of people as No to the EU. That'd be too bad, in my view.
In any case, the debate in France seems to be about anything and everything except the constitution itself. It's all the issues on the French political scene that are going to be voted on this Sunday. And this is what often happens in big referendums -- like by-elections they become a referendum on the government of the day rather than the question posed.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |