Building consensus online
From:
James Gilmour
Date:
2008 Feb 07 19:39 UTC
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Michael Allan > Sent: 07 February 2008 18:28
> 3. Open Constitution (Europe, 2010)
>
> Europeans begin openly drafting a constitution. They start
> from the document that was previously rejected, making
> substantial corrections and amendments. (Scenario of open
> drafting and voting is similar to 2 above, but on a larger
> scale.) Participation grows rapidly, and is expected to be
> high, perhaps 75% of the electorate. Reason:
>
> * Europeans are defining for themselves what Europe is, and what it
> means to be European. Those of them alive at that moment would
> not wish to be excluded.
Participation in this project would be horribly skewed and completely
unrepresentative of the electorate at large. Reason: if a
referendum on UK continued membership of the EU were held now, I would not be
surprised if more than 50% voted to leave the EU. I
would expect more than 50% if "a constitution" were anywhere on the horizon.
Why do you think the promised referendum has
disappeared?
The UK may be the most polarised Member State on this issue, but there is
considerable unhappiness about "the project" in several
other EU countries as well. So I should not expect too much positive
participation in this one - maybe some very negative
participation, and I should expect the "antis" to be the most vociferous. They
would certainly not be contributing toward building
a consensus!
James Gilmour
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