Last Chance To Say No
On the 12th of June there will be one last chance for any of the peoples of the European Union to publicly say ‘no’ to the Lisbon ‘Reform’ Treaty which the elites of Europe have intolerantly forced upon us all.
Despite the original EU Constitution being rejected by the people in France and in the Netherlands back in 2005, the document has returned disguised as a series of amendments which the governments of the EU hope they can slip past their electorates as another supposedly harmless Treaty.
Yet, so fearful are the political classes of their people saying ‘no’ to the Constitution-in-disguise that they have actively colluded to deny referendums to the people this time around on an almost unprecedented scale. Only the Irish will have a chance to vote on the document due to clauses within their own constitution.
With just over a fortnight until polling day the pro-EU, pro-Lisbon Treaty camp seems confident of gaining a positive result from the referendum. In part this is because Irish big businesses, the media and all the major Irish political parties are uniformly in favour of the EU and a ‘yes’ vote.
However, those on the ground are suggesting that there may well be a repeat of the Irish Referendum on the Nice Treaty, where despite a ‘no’ vote being continually behind in the media’s opinion polls, on the day saw Ireland vote against the Treaty. Yet, as with Nice, even if Irish sense again prevails and the Lisbon Treaty is rejected then there is no guarantee that the Constitutional Lisbon Treaty will be put to rest.
For the leaders of Europe, bureaucrats and supporters of ever closer union, public opinion is seen not as a reason to change direction but as an irritating obstacle to be overcome. And they will come back again, and again, and again until they find the result they want – but if the Irish vote for freedom, independence and democracy in June, and say ‘no, not in our name’ then it will at least throw a small spanner in the EU works.
