According to his Telegraph blog,a senior EU Commission official admitted to Daniel Hannan this week, that there are five countries where he and his colleagues are determined to avoid a referendum, I assume on the EU Constitution, they are Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Of course all five could and some most certain would vote against the Constitution, this would obviously create even further obstacles as they attempt to find a way round the democratic votes in France and Holland.

As it is they have been spending an inordinate amount of time and energy concocting various theories as to why their first attempt to force their Constitution failed, and then working out exactly how they are going to circumvent the democratic blockage and guard against any chance that the people might  vote the wrong way again. Whilst at the same time making sure that only those with a certain yes are allowed to proceed with the ratification process.

Now of course they are claiming that even though two countries have voted against and they stooped the process to prevent a domino effect in the rest of countries who might have voted no, thus denying us a voice, that we cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the democratic choice of the others. Of course in truth only 4 countries have allowed a referendum two vote in favour and two voted against. As it is their democracy argument stinks, the ratification of the constitution is based on the agreements made in the previous treaties which make it clear that each member Nation State must ratify before the Constitution can have legal authority. That means like it not, each member has a clear veto on treaty change, and it has absolutely nothing to do with any other member states decision, it is up to each state to decide for itself if it wishes to pass more power to the EU, if they do not they cannot be forced to do so by being compelled to accept a treaty change.   

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