EU Commissioners (the union’s top bureaucrats) are not famed for their straightforwardness, so full marks to the Irish EU commissioner for the observation that Europe’s political leaders know “quite well” that if their electorates had been asked to vote on the Lisbon Treaty (the “non-constitution” constitution) “the answer in 95 percent of the countries would probably have been No.”

And that, of course, is why, in most cases, they were not asked. Charming.

Hat-tip: Eursoc