Floating Chamber Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 (edited) The Czech leader said of the Irish referendum: '..the victory of freedom and reason over artificial elitist projects and European bureaucracy..' Where is our freedom? We're mugs! Edited June 15, 2008 by Floating Chamber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 The Czech leader said of the Irish referendum:'..the victory of freedom and reason over artificial elitist projects and European bureaucracy..' Where is our freedom? We're mugs! With you all the way - but just watch them ignore public feeling and find a way of getting it through anyway And they wonder why nobody trusts them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floating Chamber Posted June 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Right on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden22 Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 A good result to be sure ( ) but I wouldn't get too excited. The Irish have delivered the wrong verdict, and the normal practice in these situations is to give them a chance to repent and deliver the right verdict next time. Ireland has of course been in this situation before. Their Prime Minister announced shortly after the result that this would not happen. The mere fact that he felt the need to give this assurance should tell you all you need to know about the European project. Of course, he might be telling the truth, as the other course of action is to implement the constitution (treaty, if you are naive, drunk or heavily sedated) peicemeal. This wouldn't require inconvenient things such as a referendum or a democratic mandate. It is telling that a number of other European leaders immediately dismissed the result with the kind of lofty contempt one would more usually associate with mediaeval absolute monarchs. The truth is that the goal of the project has always been a single state, right from the days of the ex brandy salesman. The fact that the people of Europe occasionally refuse to be led by the nose by their masters will do nothing to change that. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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