And this time, women can vote, while there are no slaves to disenfranchise. Christianity overthrew a greater civilisation, says Boris Johnson, a recently extracted Ottoman aristocrat who has publicly recited the Shahada in Arabic. Actually, Christianity did not overthrow Hellenism at all.
Unless, as in Ireland, they are constitutionally obliged to have them, governments only ever call referendums when they know that they will get the answer that they want, or at least an answer that they can live with (Harold Wilson and Europe, Jim Callaghan and devolution).
Although there were other things going on, losing a referendum on changing the composition of the revising chamber and the powers of regional councils was enough to bring down even General de Gaulle.
I think that we all know what the result of this one is going to be. And so does the Greek Government. The question is what happens after that. Especially in Germany.
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