[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: English units of measure (and a touch of Brit lit)

[Kathryn]

Earendil:
I suppose Carol is refering to the French voting "no" to the European
Constitution last sunday by referendum (and if you want my opinion as
a French citizen, if the politics wanted us to vote "yes" all they had
to do was to ask us to vote "no"... French people tend to have this
innate sense of contestation ;-)
 
 
K

I got the distinct impression that wwhether the constitution was good or bad
was irrelevent. If Chirac had held a referendum on whether the French people
wanted him to give them all a hundred percent rebate on their taxes, they'd
*still* have voted no because it was Chirac doing the asking. Which I
suspect might be the problem with a referendum, f we hold one, over here in
the UK. Blair isgoing to say "trust me, you should say yes" and people are
going to automatically say no. if Blair said the sky was blue, most people
wuld want to look out of a window to check - he's not seen as the most
trustworthy person in the world at the moment.

K 
 
 

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