You're Too Stupid To Vote - MEP
Via Ian Parker-Joseph, who spotted this in the New Europe journal (bolding mine): 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.” In other words, we can't be doing such things as asking the people what they think of the 'European process', because they are too stupid to give the correct answer. I've seen plenty of examples of the utter contempt of Eurocrats for democracy, but I reckon this tops the lot. This should be on every newspaper and news bulletin in Europe - with the headline: This is what they think of you. http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2008/06/meps-youre-too-stupid-to-vote.html

YOU Are Too Stupid To Vote For By the way - your website is very slow today. It may not however - be your fault. Several sites are very slow today - whilst others are O.K. It's probably George Bush's fault Has he gone yet? And no I didn't go to the demo yesterday to have my head kicked in I thought it had been banned http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=655&Itemid=27 Tony