Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Nearly voting time
Tomorrow it's up to the Dutch to decide whether they want the European constitution. I did a test online and despite the fact that I am still very unsure whether I want to vote yes, it told me that I agreed 62% with the ideas behind it. I am not sure which I am going to vote. I wonder if there is even any point to vote yes if France has already said Non. Perhaps if the European parliament didn't seem like such a waste of money, I'd be more inclined to vote yes. I resent the fact that they work from two different seats of parliament, one in Strasbourg and one in Brussels. I am also pissed off with the fact that since the introduction of the Euro, most, if not all prices have gone up between 20 and 50%. Until recently the minister of finances in the Netherlands said that was all our imagination and that it was all just natural inflation. Now they've come back on that and said that perhaps the guilder was sold at too low a price. The politicians in the pro-camp are trying to deluge people with scare tactics, telling them if we vote no, the Netherlands will end up being isolated. The politicians in the anti-camp are coming up with rather weak and even irrelevant arguments for voting no. Can't I do a conditional vote? A "Yes, but only if..." or a "No, unless...".
posted by Xander Soldaat at 09:08
1 Comments:
What I heard here in Brazil is that Netherlands would follow France and vote Non.
Don´t know the real impact of that but I think you should ponder about it, decide your position, vote for it and see where it leads to. Just voting yes out of fear of being excluded sounds opressing to me.
Sorry about typos and confusing grammar. ;-)
Don´t know the real impact of that but I think you should ponder about it, decide your position, vote for it and see where it leads to. Just voting yes out of fear of being excluded sounds opressing to me.
Sorry about typos and confusing grammar. ;-)