As is reported in today's Times, differences of attitude among French voters towards the EU Constitution continue to stem from concerns they share that their country not become any more like Britain.
Supporters of the Constitution there claim that, only by its adoption, can their country be spared that evil fate. Its opponents there maintain that only by the Constitution being rejected can their country escape this fate.
When the turn comes for British voters to voice their opinions on the issue, doubtless their attitudes will be similarly governed by concerns they share about the effects the Constitution is likely to have in terms of making Britain more similar to France.
Unlike in the case of the French, however, British voters will part company with one another not over whether they believe its adoption likley to have this effect. For that it would do is something on which they will all surely agree.
Where British voters will part company with each other is over how they feel towards the prospect of Britain becoming more like France.
In Britain, the Constitution will be supported by those who fervently want Britain to become more similar to France. Opposition to it will come from those who look on this prospect with unmitigated horror.
One can only hope that, when the time comes for British voters to voice their opinion on this matter, they will be found not just in matters calling for political judgement, but also in those that involve an element of taste, that they can be relied on to display better sense than the French.