What a great day for democracy. David Carr speaks for England:

To all French cryto-communists, syndicalists, marxists, trotskyites, leninists, stalinists, national socialists, socialist nationalists, primitivists, Trade Union dinosaurs, student activists, greenie nutters, neo-fascists, old fashioned fascists, quasi-crypto-troglodyte-Pol-Pottist-year zero-flat-earthers, looney tunes and enviro-goons....Merci Beaucoup!!!!

There is something truly wonderful about watching the Eurofanatics squeal. The BBC has wheeled out the familar representatives of the patronising political elites, typified by the ever-present Dominique Moisi, and it is sheer joy watching them try to explain away the result - 56% to 44% at the time of writing! - as being nothing more than the ill-formed, worthless opinions of a few ignorant extremists.

M Moisi has been sharing with us his conclusion: that the result proves that President Chirac was wrong to put the ratification to a referendum, since the population is unable to grasp the complicated issues involved.

It is, of course, precisely that sod the public Euro-elite mindset which is responsible for the thumping rejection of the constitution. And that is a thought which M Moisi and his fellows are clearly unable even to think, let alone learn from.

And now I have just listened to Louis Michel, speaking for the Commission, inform us that 'we should be honest in analysing the 55 per cent who voted no'. By 'honest', he explains, he means that we should recognise the contradictions in the no coalition, including - heavens! - 'nationalists', who reject European integration in principle. In principle! Have they no shame?

To creatures such as M Michel, a man who managed the near impossible in lowering the reputation of the Belgian government (and has been rewarded with a key job as a Commissioner), the views of such 'no' voters render them invalid ab initio, and ought not to be allowed to put any brake on the European project.

There are two possible outcomes to this: either the voice of the people will be listened to, and there will indeed be a brake. Or the likes of M Michel will prevail, and it will be ignored - in which case, God help the democracy which we ought today to be celebrating.