If your national media is stupid enough (or self-interested enough) to be taken in by this guff you deserve all you get.

I don't know who own the media in Ireland. In France, they are almost all owned by half a dozen billionaires. Do we really deserve them?

Most voters would prefer to watch paint dry.

You're right, Frank. Ignorance is bliss. The EU business secrets directive is wonderful. Whistleblowers should be locked up, since they were not smart enough to mind their own business. The "Great and Good" in Europe are to be trusted.

The EU status quo is working so well, why rock the boat?

And turning me into an authoritarian populist is both clever and funny. Did you bother to check out the DiEM25 manifesto I linked? Are we indeed authoritarian simpletons?

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}