Good letter in last Saturday's Telegraph from a certain Alan Pavelin on the proposed EU constitution:

"I would point out that the treaty was negotiated by the elected governments of the (then)25 member states; that 18 countries (either through their elected parliaments or by referendum) have accepted it and only two have rejected it; and that, of the countries that held referendums, the total of yes votes exceeded the total of no votes. By all means argue against the treaty because you don't like its provisions (which include, for the first time, a provision allowing any member state to leave the EU)…But please don't argue against the treaty on grounds of democracy, because this flies in the face of the facts."