chaos and honey

.............anyone care to try this one out?

some of my take.........
ok now that the 'citizens' of france have made their decision, next up is the dutch who are sure to vote no - particularly now that the french have shown them the way........
is there any chance the british public will vote yes on the consitution if given a choice too?
seems to me as an outsider that a yes vote would have solidified the once utopian dream of trying to unite europe under one political banner and economic mode.........
the no vote shatters this hope and keeps alive the old europe of many cultures under a leaky umbrella.........
all of this being said, turkey is the country that will be sure to remember yesterday's vote. they made a political deal with france that would allow them to get into the eu sometime down the road for a 'we will not support' the u.s. effort in iraq........
well, turkey has now quite possibly been shown the door because of yesterday's vote and may coming crawling back to the 'u.s. sphere of influence' in the coming months.
end of day, as much as democracy is supposed to be for one and all, this vote yesterday proves politicians with NO cohonees that leave the tough choices to 'their public' even after being voted in can and will find that the public much of the time is too busy voting with their emotions instead of their brains.
this vote should have never been allowed into the public arena. it will take the eu another twenty years to put this past them. i suspect several politicos in the states and china just about now are having nice tall drinks and saluting the french 'citizens' for allowing them to stay ahead of the game.........
paris is about to get attention, and the 'french' love attention, lets see how they talk themselves out of this one........
"Yes, but it is a beautiful remindier that citizens expressions are heard, even if the music isn't quite played the way we want......"
i can hear it now.........
the real trouble will begin when the dutch vote no and the european govts start to realize that their vision of the eu is a dead end in the hands of the folk.
if the eu is to grow into a unified, cohesive entity that is economically sound and not consisting of different platforms in every other backyard it has a long way to go.
in essense what the europeans are now being asked to vote on is a commitment to an entity and a foundation in which to let it proceed politically and economically as a unit. there is a very clear historical parallel with the united states when it tried for over ten years to create its constitution in order to bring its states under one federal jurisdiction.
what transpired on sunday is bad long term for the eu.
the vote no by the french and tomorrow's NO vote by the dutch will set this process back quite a bit and will give 'local' govts the ability for a time to take even wider lattitude in their economic budgets and they will feel lesser possibility of being held accountable for transgressions.
the eu will go forward, but i predict it will be the 'eastern' states that push for a cohesive unity now and they will do this because they first and foremost know what it is like to exist on the edge and have their nations existence threatened.
in the end, if a united europe is too suceed it would be wise to look at the forumla used in the states to create tiered govt that works.
that should take only about a hundred more years for the europeans to learn to accept.