Dear Log,
«Some of us swallowed reservations about the Maastricht treaty because we accepted the assurances of British ministers,that its integrationist provisions would never be enacted.Today, when those optimistic Tory "wets" have been proved so wrong, it is far harder to accept the European constitution merely by cherishing hopes that it will collapse under the weight of its own follies, together with wilful breaches by the usual suspects, led by France and Italy.»
--"Why I am no longer a European: It is galling to be driven by logic into the 'no' camp"
I hope this EU thing works out okay, simply because the alternative will be endless tiresome decades of hand-wringing over how to balance the usual European concerns -- formalistic prodecure and a desire for universal contentment (at least among the governmental elites)
