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Thu 09 Sep 2008Perverse to say 'professionals' are better on matters like Lisbon
The antics of our establishment over the Lisbon Treaty show up its failure to respect representative democracy, argues John Maguire
BERTOLT BRECHT once sarcastically advised the East German regime: since it believed the people had lost the government's confidence, wouldn't it be simpler to dissolve the people and elect another?
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