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Dead Parrot? by Clint Wayne 2008-06-16 08:00:33 |
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The Irish nation has spoken with a resounding NO.
Will the masters of the European Union listen?
Don’t be so naïve. The sheer arrogance of Brussels will simply air brush over what they conceive as a mere ‘blip’ and go blindly crashing on like an uncontrollable juggernaut demolishing all the fundamental basics of democracy. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has already urged the member states to continue ratifying the agreement insisting it was “alive and we should now try to find a solution”. It is a typical example of that arrogance that the EU never even had a ‘Plan B’.
The Constitution clearly stated ‘that should any of the twenty-seven nations fail to ratify the Lisbon Treaty then it would be dead’ making it absolutely clear that it would not become law. Don’t be naïve once again, soon the rhetoric will change to a two speed Europe, or a ‘best of two’ policy when the bully boys start heaping pressure on the new Irish Prime Minister to keep holding referendums until they get the right answer. Democracy at its very best! After all both the Dutch and the French voted ‘No’ back in 2005 and they still carried on regardless, in fact the legislation increased.
So how come the Irish a fairly pro-European nation that has immensely benefited from its time in the embodiment of the Union decided to give Brussels a bloody nose. Well it didn’t help from the outset that Barroso started advising the Irish Electorate on how to vote and it has been reported that there were many varied reasons for the No vote including abortion, neutrality and taxation. It must also have dawned on them that their own ‘gravy train’ had reached its final destination with the arrival of the poorer Eastern European nations and that from now on they would be perceived as a meal ticket.
Here in the UK it is widely acknowledged that had our Government kept its solemn promise and not refused our own referendum we would now be standing proudly shoulder-to-shoulder with the Irish by voting with by an even greater margin. Its not that we are anti-European, far from it, but its our grave concern on this constant unrelenting push for greater integration from Brussels without any debate whatsoever and its simply time to draw a line in the sand and say “No more”.
Our politicians have openly admitted on numerous television programmes that they do not even understand the contents of the Treaty or have even read it from cover to cover so how can a nation who instinctively does not trust its leaders become the proverbial ostrich and bury our heads in the sand.
The Swiss and the Norwegians to their credit are not members and still enjoy all the same trading agreements as all the EU member states so what’s the problem? We simply say no more integration. We just do not want it. Don’t play political games, take it seriously, listen to the people and treat democracy with the respect that it has earned through history and not only when it suits the EU’s political agenda. There should be no illusion, no more bulldozing or bamboozling, simply follow your own rules that were absolutely clear from the outset and accept that the Constitution is as Monty Python quite plainly declared, "This is a Dead Parrot!"
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