European Constitution

Democracy Movement

In a June 2 article entitled “Double Blow to EU Constitution Shows Fatal Flaw at EU’s Heart” The British Democracy Movement campaign director, Marc Glendening, comments:

“Real pro-Europeans will be celebrating the fact that the peoples of both Holland and France have now rejected the EU Constitution.

These extraordinary victories, in countries which the EU elite arrogantly assumed would endorse this latest attempted power grab by large majorities, demonstrate that ordinary Europeans want decisions concerning their lives to be taken closer to them.

These results – particularly the diversity of reasons for rejecting the Constitution – have illuminated the fundamental problem at the heart of the EU project. Namely, that single EU policies simply cannot suit the different needs and wants of Europe’s diverse countries and peoples.

Europe’s political elite must now listen, and stop trying to squeeze a diverse Europe into a single political & economic straightjacket in pursuit of outdated superstate dogma dreamed up in the 1950s.”

This double victory for democracy demonstrates what the DM has always argued: namely, that the struggle against the centralisation of power in Brussels not only transcends left and right, but is an objective shared by ordinary people of all nations.