Or perhaps they DID.
Full admission that he would prefer to LIE to the people, and IMPOSE the rule of select elitists upon the masses which he assumes were too stupid to understand that a 448 page "constitution" too complicated for anyone to understand was a recipe for disaster.
As long as they keep talking, and take further actions to force this on the people, it's hopeful that Europeons will wake up and vote out all of these elitist dictators and fix their countries properly, create a understandable constitution that works for the people, created by the people, not by greedy elitists who want to rule the world as they see fit.