Calling a chair ‘a cow’ will not make it go ‘Moo’ .

Calling a chair ‘a cow’ will not make it go ‘Moo’. With Orwellian double-think, the preamble to the European Convention begins with a quote from Thucydides: Our Constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. So should we not vote on it? It is about as ‘democratic’ as the Warsaw Pact Treaty. Paul Staines… [Samizdata.net]

Does the proposed EU Constitution allow the 80 million people of Germany to vote on taxes and spending for the 60 million people of the UK? If so, then it truly does capture the essence of democracy.