Brussels must learn to take 'no' for an answer

MOST electorates in the Western world now regard their political class with loathing and contempt; but few have more reason to do so than the people of Ireland, who have been humiliated on the international stage by their politicians.

Ireland defeated the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum last June, by 53.4% to 46.6% – identical percentages to the original referendum that had rejected Nice. There was chaos in Brussels, disarray within the ranks of the Irish government. What was to be done? The answer came as early as August 26, when a familiar voice was raised – that of the high-minded Dick Roche – to propose a solution: a second referendum to reverse the outcome of the first. [snip]

That the government of the Irish Republic, abetted by the main opposition parties, has been complicit with the EU nomenklatura in frustrating the clearly expressed wishes of their countrymen and coercing them into a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is shameful.

What kind of democracy is this? Would they demand a rerun of a general election if the result were unsatisfactory? Yet this manoeuvre is even more reprehensible, since it is being executed at the behest of a cartel of foreign powers inimical to the wishes of Irish voters.

That is normally called treason... [snip]

Brown, Cowen, Martin, Roche, Sarkozy, Barroso, Merkel – we have seen the future and it stinks.

[polls indicate that all 27 EU member states want referendums - and that 15 of them would reject it for sure. Which is why 'their'(?) governments have stripped them all, except Ireland {assumed to be a done deal} of a vote on the matter after France and the Netherlands voted no. If the don't revolt, and unfortunately Brussels has proved that's what it now will take, they will be subsumed by the swamp that is the EU collective - yet they do nothing]

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