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McCreevy admits most EU voters would reject Lisbon
Friday, 26 June 2009
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EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy says Irish people shouldn't be ashamed about their rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.
Speaking in Dublin this morning, McCreevy admitted that the treaty would have been rejected in most member states if it had been put to a public vote.
He said many EU leaders were glad they had no legal obligation to hold referenda on the treaty in their own countries.
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Does McCreevy wants the Irish electorate to reject the Lisbon treaty for a second time? Good for him, if he does. Certainly that's what I want to happen. But Lord Mandelson would certainly not agree with McGreevy's honest comments. Despite now being effectively the UK's deputy PM, while he was the EU Trade Commissioner in Brussels Mand talked repeatedly about "Post-democracy". Such are the people whom we allow to govern us. Will they protect our liberties? No, they'll destroy them!
Posted by Liberty Valence | 30.06.09, 14:09 GMT
The 5,000 strong EUROPEAN GENDARMERIE FORCE (EGF) is patiently waiting for the Lisbon treaty to be ratified.
It will be "first and foremost at the disposal of the EU" and deployed across Europe for "crisis management operations" ( i.e. demonstrations and riots ).
The officers come from Romania,Italy,Portugal,Spain,France and Holland with officers from Turkey as "observers". All wear a badge with a grey flaming grenade on a sword with a blue background.
Coming soon to a street near you.
Posted by Johannes | 26.06.09, 18:17 GMT
Ha, ha, ha; hee, hee, hee.
Good old Charlie Mc Gree-vee.
What sort of a red herring is this he's throwing out?
Posted by john murphy | 26.06.09, 17:29 GMT
These people are not democrats; they are self appointed aristocrats, who brazenly announce that they need no democratic mandate.
By what right do they rule? Divine right? We must end the rule of such arrogant princes by leaving the EU, soonest.
Posted by Charles Efford | 26.06.09, 14:10 GMT
This proves that there is a political elite that does not want the people to have a say in their future. The Bureacratic Fascism is now the norm, that will replace Democracy! The Dictators of centries past would have love this. Just think of it, 'No military might to squash the democracies, just treaties with hidden agenda's. The People must wake up. What will our children and their children say to us? Will they say, " Grandad/Grandma, "Why did you let them control you- I would not have".
Posted by Adrian Blake | 26.06.09, 13:38 GMT