A lot has been said already about the vote against the EU constitution, and I doubt if I can add something useful to the discussion. My ‘no’ to this constitution is a quite fundamental one. Like many others already commented, the EU is an undemocratic system, which is reason enough to vote against. Some say it is a ‘toy’ for the political elite (the Berlusconi types, as I heard say), but my fear is that it is not just that. Read for example what Henk Medema writes about it.

And did you know that this was not the first vote about a European constitution in the Netherlands? More than 50 years ago (!), about 95% of the population of Delft and Bolsward voted ‘yes’ for a united Europe with a constitution! The world has changed…