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Internet €uropoll shows we all think Eurasia's a great idea

Sunday Mag Will Tony Blair be our "enlarged" €uropresident?
Sun Dec 15 2002, 19:51
THE EUROPEAN UNION canvassed citizens on the Interweb to see if everyone thought enlargement was good and apparently it's just hunky-dory.

And it's issued the results, although the number of people who voted online is strangely hard to detect, unless you're a beancounter.

It's a bit hard to figure out just how extensive the "self administered" Internet questionnare was, before the fine charts were posted.

The results show no more than a few hundred folk voted. It's possibly only a few people know about the Internet vote, because broadband Britain hasn't arrived here yet. Opinion polls in Britain showed that many Brits didn't know that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia were even candidates. Never mind Turkey.

In tiny six point grey script at the bottom of the results the €uroplotters say that the Internet consultation exercise is not a fully fledged opinion poll of the kind organized by European or national public opinion research organisations.

No one here in Blighty has had a chance to vote as to whether we should "enlarge" the €uropean Union so it's all becoming a bit non-democratic perhaps.

Perhaps it's different in the rest of Europe - maybe there's been a referendum we haven't noticed..

This fine set of benchmarketing charts show that everyone is for enlargement but we can't exactly figure out how many netizens voted.

Turkey is going to have to wait a while -- but how long will it be before we try and embrace the Great Bear of Europe?

They weren't all €urocratz or supporters of our own Tony Blair as president of Eurasia, are they? µ

See Also
The Eurasia Foundation
The Newspeak Dictionary
Eric Blair (George Orwell) talks Eurasia talk in 1984
Retro Prisoner Site I am not a number -- 361306th visitor says

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