Blowback in Europe

Good sense prevails in the unlikeliest of places. First the French, now the Dutch. This is blowback from the EU bureaucracy's arrogance and overreach. The mainstream media keeps leading the story with the line that "Nine other countries have ratified the EU Constitution". No, nine other parliaments have ratified because their governments feared exactly this outcome if it were put to a referendum. In a classic "Emperor is naked" moment, the EU is revealed as an elite enterprise, as breathtaking in its arrogance and in its contempt for democracy as NZ Labour. Let us hope they both pay the price.