EU No, thanks

Ireland - the only country to actually allow the people to vote on the EU Treaty - have apparently replied with a big fat no in their referendum on that Treaty.

That doesn't kill the Treaty, and the last time countries voted against the EU, the Union responded by changing the title of the document from Constitution to Treaty. I wonder whether they will do this now - and if they do, I wonder what the new title will be. Perhaps the EU Agreement. The EU Meeting of Minds. The EU oh-no-it-isn't-the-constitution-honestly-guv-it-is-called-something-different-anyway-innit. Rest assured, they'll find a way to keep the project going. Good God helps us all, they'll find a way to ignore the will of the people.

This quote, from an Irish Labour MP, is quite eye-opening:

"That was one of the biggest problems of this campaign – thousands and thousands of people couldn't even understand what the treaty was about."

Not just the treaty - I think a lot of people look at the EU and wonder what the ruddy fuck it is all about. The more referendums we have on the EU, the better - if only because it will make that amorphous, nebulous, expensive and undemocratic institution justify exactly what benefit it actually offers to the citizens of the member states.

If, of course, there are any benefits to boast about.