07-04-2009, 03:34 PM
Magda
As I understand it there was indeed a lot of arm-twisting by the European Commission Goons to try to prevent a referendum in Ireland. However, it appears that the Irish Constitution itself won the day in that it was accepted that ratification of the Lisbon Treaty would require an Irish Constitutional amendment and ANY such amendment requires a referendum. All the main Irish political parties campaigned for a 'YES' vote but were snubbed.
So - they're just going to have to keep at it until they vote the RIGHT way eh? It's what passes for 'Democracy' in Euroland these days and it stinks to high heaven.
As I understand it there was indeed a lot of arm-twisting by the European Commission Goons to try to prevent a referendum in Ireland. However, it appears that the Irish Constitution itself won the day in that it was accepted that ratification of the Lisbon Treaty would require an Irish Constitutional amendment and ANY such amendment requires a referendum. All the main Irish political parties campaigned for a 'YES' vote but were snubbed.
So - they're just going to have to keep at it until they vote the RIGHT way eh? It's what passes for 'Democracy' in Euroland these days and it stinks to high heaven.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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