Yes, it's no!! posted by Richard Seymour

France has strangled the EU Constitution at birth , which is, for some (and me), "un moment de joie" . Direland has some very useful analysis of the results.

The great joy of this is the number of noses which have been smacked hard, bloodied and flattened by this vote. The corrupt Mr Chirac whose popularity rating is now negative; the Tories, New Labour and the Lib Dems, who have all pledged to more or less abandon the fight given a no vote; and the unelected EU bureaucrats so desperate for "an internal market where competition is free and undistorted" (except when it comes to CAP).

It is remarkable that the market and competition should be raised to the status of constitutional precepts. Even more remarkable is that even modest boureois principles of democracy should be cast aside - the Council of Ministers is not elected, but it has the powers of the executive and legislative together, so that neither popular sovereignty not separation of powers is respected. The only elected body, the European Parliament, has only limited veto powers and no executive powers to speak of at all. It is remarkable that the parties of the Socialist International (née Second International) have even attempted to flog this undemocratic neoliberal drivel to the voters. Fuck 'em. Let these bruschetta eating, shiraz-quaffing mofos drown their sorrow in mange touts and the finest red. This is, as someone said in the comments boxes below, the best May the left has had since 1968.