{"id":4049,"date":"2003-05-26T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2003-05-26T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2003-05-26T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2003-05-26T19:44:45","slug":"regardless-of-any-other-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/05\/26\/regardless-of-any-other-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Regardless of any other opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of any other opinion on the matter, it astonishes me that the European Union has managed to get this far without a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2938272.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News - extracts from the draft constitution\">constitution<\/a>. Let&#8217;s face it, any club or society would have a constitution, just to establish protocols for management. Honestly, this strikes me as something that should have been sorted out years ago. But I fear that there will be much wrangling before it is settled, including much stuff and nonsense from the europhobes.<br \/>\nThe full text can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/european-convention.eu.int\/bienvenue.asp?lang=EN\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The European Convention\">here<\/a>, although it doesn&#8217;t strike me as exciting reading. But I suspect that lots of people will talk about it as if they have actually read it.<br \/>\nI remember years ago going (fairly regularly) to the Fox and Hounds at East Ashling, where they had a paperback copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/9282409597\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"buy it at Amazon!\">Maastricht Treaty<\/a> on a bookshelf. I can&#8217;t say that I ever saw anyone reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of any other opinion on the matter, it astonishes me that the European Union has managed to get this far without a constitution. Let&#8217;s face it, any club or society would have a constitution, just to establish protocols for management. Honestly, this strikes me as something that should have been sorted out years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}