Mr Brown's Big Lie

The Business, here, has some astute observations on what is underway in Lisbon. Have 27 National Leaders ever before displayed such arrogance and contempt for those who gave them their offices and undeserved lavish lifestyles? The article begins as follows: Very little of what Karl Marx ever wrote turned out to be of lasting value but he was right about one thing: history does repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as a farce. This week the governments of the European Union (EU) meet in Lisbon to perpetrate a massive anti-democratic con on the European people: they will agree on a reheated and only slightly adulterated version of the European constitution (now re-branded as a reform treaty) so devastatingly defeated in referenda in France and the Netherlands two years ago. Europe’s leaders hold their electorates in such contempt that this time they will not make the mistake of asking them to vote on the matter.