There's an analogy to this in Eoin Colfer's new Hitchhikers' Book. It concerns two groups who are at war and goes something like this: "If we win, you will submit to us and learn to enjoy our rule." "And what if you lose?" "If we lose we will come back again and again until we do win".

It doesn't matter if 99% of European people oppose this Treaty, we were going to either a) have no vote or b) have vote after vote after vote until we finally agreed to it.

I suppose not having a vote in Britain did at least save us money. Although we might have delayed ratification a bit longer. We might have held out for 3 or even 4 votes .....

[edit on 3-11-2009 by Essan]