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Bernard Bot, the Dutch foreign minister, is surprised at the strength and amplitude of the opposition to the proposed EU constitution, when out canvassing he met a woman who said there was no point in trying to convince her, she was going to vote no. “I asked her ‘Why?’ and she said

‘I just feel good saying no for once.”

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the former student radical who is now a German member of the European Parliament, put it:

“The feeling of the people is that we want to say no to what exists to prove that we exist.”

Leon de Winter, a Dutch filmmaker and political commentator, said “How can you create a constitution for a nonentity?”

He was expressing the common sentiment in the Netherlands that a Europe stretching from Portugal to Ukraine and likely to include Muslim Turkey is a kind of illusion, a figment of the bureaucratic imagination with very little in the way of a unifying purpose or a unifying vision, and it should not attempt to have one.

“I don’t want Europe to be a unified power,” de Winter said. “I don’t want Europe to have a foreign minister, or to be a competitor for power with the United States.”

The political elites told us that the multicultural thing would be an enrichment,” de Winter said, “but most people have seen the reality - unemployment, ethnic ghettos, high criminality and the rise of radical Islam. So there’s a basic feeling that we don’t believe what our politicians tell us.”

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The messages are being sent to the political elites that the people do not belive them, do not want their countries to be dissolved into a soup of the United States of Europe. The people want to know that the politicians they elect, speak for them and not some supra government of Europe. We will have wait and see if the politicians are listening, my bet is they are not and will not, until we demonstrate clearly that we are fed up with them treating us, the ones who have to pick up the bills as mere cannon fodder.