Could a miracle be about to take place in France? Although many knowledgeable folk remain doubtful that the EU’s squalid ‘constitution’ will really be voted down in the land of crooked Jacques this May 29th, the latest polls are very encouraging:

Even the slavishly pro-Brussels Guardian is reporting this:

“A poll for the free newspaper Metro by MarketTools research group yesterday showed 62% of people who have decided how to vote will reject the treaty in France’s May 29 referendum, four points up from the previous 58% high in a survey by the BVA agency released on Thursday.”

Meanwhile, Luxembourg’s prime minister, the evocatively named Jean-Claude Juncker, has proved that, contrary to the rumours, that dour bunch of eurocrats, placemen and rentiers located down in the Ardennes really do have a sense of humour. He’s saying that the EU will “continue to develop” if the constitution is voted right (true enough, alas), but that the process will slow down and that as a result “we would lose two decades, during which certain parts of the world would move ahead by adopting Europe’s model, while others would catch up with us.”

Quite why anyone else should want to adopt “Europe’s model,” which is best seen as the Ford Pinto of economic management and the Rolls Royce of corruption, is beyond me.

Juncker didn’t explain either.