This is What They Think of You
Via Ian, posting over at the Devil’s Kitchen, This:
Referenda and Democracy
The EU has now accumulated significant (bad) experiences with referenda. It was very delicately yet effectively communicated by the Romanian social-democrat MEPs: “The referendum in Ireland has demonstrated that direct democracy (by way of referendum) cannot ensure the progress of the European process. The security, liberty and prosperity of hundreds of millions of European citizens ask for complex leadership actions, which cannot be appreciated by heterogeneous populations, from the point of view of the information level and the education one. European integration is a process that must be conducted politically by the elected representatives of the European citizens.”
Translated into plain English: “The proles cannot be relied upon to give the right answer as they are too stupid”.
There you go, that’s what the Eurocrats think of us. Nice to be put into our place, isn’t it?
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Comment by Paul
# June 16, 2008,
The arrogance expressed in that paragraph is quite something. The views of the French, Dutch and Irish public? Bah, the proles don’t know what is best for them.
Comment by Mac the Knife
# June 16, 2008,
I’m so ashamed at being so stupid. If only I understood the EU project better, perhaps I might be more grateful and appreciate my Masters more… *sobs*
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