{"id":331,"date":"2005-02-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/13\/what-does-it-mean-to-vote-no\/"},"modified":"2005-02-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-13T15:00:00","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-vote-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/what-does-it-mean-to-vote-no\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to vote &#8220;no&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eulogist is back at Reflections on European Democracy, and he&#8217;s returned with a nicely thought-provoking prost &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-democracy.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/13\/wrong-question\/#more-36\">&#8220;it is clear what happens if a majority votes \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdyes\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd. But is it equally clear what it means to vote \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdno\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd? Hardly&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For other reading &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policyreview.org\/feb05\/asmus_print.html\">Does Israel belong in the EU and NATO<\/a>? And a bit more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.com\/DBWeb\/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4380\">Israel and the Middle East power-play<\/a>. And &#8211; just for the hell of it and even though I know it&#8217;ll probably only attract more <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/eu-us-relations-fresh-start.html\">Americans accusing me of being anti-American<\/a> &#8211; a bit more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/article.asp?aid=11902050_1\">the perceived EU\/US split<\/a> of recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eulogist is back at Reflections on European Democracy, and he&#8217;s returned with a nicely thought-provoking prost &#8211; &#8220;it is clear what happens if a majority votes \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdyes\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd. But is it equally clear what it means to vote \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdno\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd? Hardly&#8221;. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/what-does-it-mean-to-vote-no\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}