I am sick of the Yes brigade treating this upcoming referendum as being a vote on Europe, its not, should we vote No we are still in Europe. Should we vote No, the Treaty cannot go ahead, and if the Conservative party win the UK general Election early next year they have stated that they will hold a referendum on this Treaty, it does not take a genius to predict that outcome. It clearly would be defeated. It would also be defeated in France. Netherlands if their citizens were afforded a vote on it.
We are simply asking them to go back to the drawing board, this treaty was drawn up under utterly completely circumstances that prevail today. It makes me laugh, as we stand today there are 4 EU members that have not even subscribed to the euro as a currency ! Yet we are being treated very badly because we have the audacity to question the Treaty. Giving such power to People who in the past were worried how straight a banana should be !!
Wheeling out Michael O'Leary was hilarious, that man does not give a sht about consumers, or workers. He was obviously not even up to speed on the Treaty, licking This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language for his own agenda, he surprised me as to how low he would stoop.
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A year is a long time in politics, would you have predicted that 12 months ago FF ratings would have dropped to an all time low? You can never say for definite that a treaty would be accepted or rejected in a referendum in another country, who knows what would happen?. Anyway, if you follow the logic of that arguement, we should all be voting yes on Friday because it doesn't matter
The reality is that Europe has been good for Ireland and the historical benifits far outweigh the costs to date. We wouldn't be expelled from the EU if we voted no, but it would be naive to assume that the other countries would simply forget it and move on as if nothing had happened. I genuinely believe it would be remembered that we had rejected the treaty and that at some stage, down the line, a price would have to be paid.
As for Michael O'Leary, at least he is not a reformed terrorist, we know how he makes his money and how he funded his campaign, he hasn't published incorrect versions of the treaty on his website, he doesn't say no to everything a la Patricia McKenna, I don't recall seeing ads or posters from him that are factually incorrect and he's not Jim Corr!!!!