Brussels isn't listening

The European Union has launched a campaign to bring out the yoof vote in June, using MTV ads and a new website. The aim is to get people to send in crazy clips of themselves talking about the European Union and, more unusually, to attend some organised public shouting.

Bruno Waterfield in the Telegraph pretty much covers how nauseating it is when politicians engage in this kind of nonsense:

This is all typically patronising and commitment-lite, an indication of the low expectations and true contempt in which "young people" and the rest of us are held. It is European politics for cretins... People, young or old, should not vote in the European elections unless they think they are being offered a manifesto that directly addresses politics - for the EU, to reform it or against it.It is better not to vote than to perpetuate a ghastly sham. If low turnout reflects a lack of political engagement with the EU project then so be it.

The idea that young people should attend a propaganda rally where they are encouraged to shout "Can you hear me Europe?" would be only slightly less stomach churning if the EU hadn't just ignored the French, Dutch and Irish voters shouting 'NO' to the Lisbon Treaty at the ballot box.

So kids, you can shout all you like, but Brussels isn't listening.