October 3rd, 2009

Irish Need a Tie-Break Referendum

lisbon_yes_noWell it is looking like a bad day for Irish sovereignty. Guido feels a bit guilty about not going home to vote. The entire Irish political establishment including the formerly anti-EU Greens backed the Brussels gravy train, the state media and the press likewise. With Declan Ganley neutered the anti-Treaty forces were lacking in leadership. The likely result according to exit polls is a ‘yes’.

That makes it No 1, Yes 1, so surely we need a tie-break referendum?


345 Comments

  1. 1
    petuniabean says:

    The Irish more likely need a tea-break..what influence were they under?

    • 12
      As in WW2 the Irish capitulate to Germany says:

      A sad day in deed. No doubt call me Dave will be pleased as he no longer has to hold an EU refendum.

    • 21
      Anonymous says:

      How dare you?

    • 24
      Tger economy rolls over like a pussy cat says:

      A boycott of Guinnes, Ryan Air and Paddy Power is called for.

    • 53
      Son of Thribb says:

      So.
      Farewell then
      Free Ireland.

      Relegated to a Euro-state.
      Like the rest of us.
      Thanks a bunch.

      To be sure, to be sure.
      Yes
      That was your catchphrase.

      We thought you were sure the first time.
      Now it turns out you weren’t.

      So the stereotype is true.
      The Irish ARE thick.

      • 134
        The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

        Not only thick but cowards, obviously applicable to ones who voted “oui!”

        The delicious irony of this obviously eludes such simple folk:

        They fought for 700 years because theyd not have the English telling them what to do, but they will allow a bunch of unelected, unaccountable power hungry gobshites in brussels to do precisely that.

        Durrrrrr.

        • 191
          Susie says:

          WHORES!

        • 334
          Buggers belief says:

          You cannot blame the Irish for not doing our dirty work, because we are the cowards. We should be marching on Parliament in our millions with pitch forks and cycles demanding the referendum WE were promised.

    • 97
      EU Bureau of Lightbulbs says:

      Too much Guiness before voting. Don’t our emerald comrades realise their economic collapse has largely been caused by the EU. Biting the hand that keeps slapping them round the face will lead to more pain. Is this masochism?

    • 104
      Ken Lorp says:

      The sad thing is that the yes is a result of the inept, incompetent and corrupt political class of the country. Most people prefer rule from Brussels than their own politicians.

      If the politicians weren’t as inept or corrupt, the treaty would most likely fail.

      • 282
        Theorist says:

        @ Ken Lorp (number 104)

        “If the politicians weren’t as inept or corrupt the treaty would fail”

        Do you think it is an accident that Gordon Brown is Prime Minister? Every single decision he took as Chancellor was wrong, and his performance as leader makes a mockery of the word.

        We didn’t join the Euro in 1999 because the pound was so strong and the economy was pretty good, thanks largely to Thatcher and Major’s (!) governments. I think a referendum on the single currency now would be 50/50, the UK would reluctantly dump the currency if it was necessary. Remember Brown saying we would join the Euro when the time was right? I have a theory that this was the Labour plan all along – to purposely ruin Britain with ineptitude and incompetence and force it to pass Brown’s five economic tests and join Europe.

        Huhnes, Huhnes, Huhnes. A bunch of fucking Huhnes. And when the Guido’s software says Hoon, it really means chump.

        • 339
          George Soros says:

          There is only a 9% difference between the two currencies at the moment.
          If Gordon can continue the devaluation of the pound …. .

    • 120
      Dissent is NOT allowed says:

      Mrs Dale is blogging that the Conservatives who want a referendum should not talk about it at the conference.

      conference: The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views

      So what doesn’t Mrs dale understand about a conference?

    • 183
      A Letter From Gordon says:

      http://www.labour.org.uk/the-leaders-debate

      I will visit every region and every city to speak to people and discuss with the people of the country the choices we face.”

      There are 66 cities in the UK, will he really visit all of them?

    • 194
      Dave Says says:

      have said repeatedly that I want us to have a referendum. If the Treaty is not ratified in all Member States and not in force when the election is held, and if we are elected, then we will hold a referendum on it, we will name the date of the referendum in the election campaign, we will lead the campaign for a ‘No’ vote.

      If the Treaty is ratified and in force in all Member States, we have repeatedly said we would not let matters rest there. But we have one policy at a time, and we will set out how we would proceed in those circumstances if, and only if, they happen.”

      http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2009/10/03/there-will-be-no-change-in-our-policy-on-europe/

      Clear as mud then.

    • 199

      There is a simple solution. The Irish in recent history also have form and previous in applying it, like in 1922. I didn;t blame them then for I was not alive, and I’d not blame them today for anyone who likes the EU is a wierdo, just like those real people in the 60s-80s who liked East Germany. See Natalie Solent’s recent article on samizdata.net.

      If anyone can leave the EU, then in default of the Poles and Czechs who are not yet fully-chained in, then it is the Irish.

      There is I believe no provision in _any_ of the various substantive EU treaties, from the formation of the ECSC onwards, for a nation (province?) to leave the EU. In this case it must then be the simplest thing in the world for a nation to….walk out.

      What will the others do? Nothing: what is it to them?

      What will the Council of Ministers and the Commissioners (commisars?) do? Nothing so long as they can’t call on “the resources” (which is to say the armed forces) of the other EU nations.

      Can you see the Armed Forces of any EU nation agreeing to go to war against Ireland if its administration decided to take the Irish republic our of the EU? Can you see them doing it to us in the same case?

      Can you see them doing it to the Poles? (Ahhh……I shouldn’t have said that…..but it’s still fairly improbable. (Mr) “Nobody” is discussing a “Case White”at this time…)

      • 240
        English Viking says:

        I most certainly could see the effect of a UK withdrawal from the EU leading to war. The first steps taken by the EU after UK withdrawal would be trade sanctions. Some nations would either not be included in the sanctions (non EU countries) or simply ignore them. After a couple of years of increasing animosity from both sides of the Channel, the closure of the Chunnel and numerous other tit for tat exchanges, the French Navy would sink a cargo vessel carrying vital supplies to the UK in breach of the embargo. Imagine if was an American, Canadian or Australian merchantman. The Royal Navy would then be required to escort merchant shipping. Similar exchanges would see HMS Illustrious deployed, dozen of EU ships sunk, massive casualties on our side, escalation into all out war. War is coming, in one form or the other, because of this EU madness. Either as above, or in civil rebellions when the people eventually realise what has been done to them, their children and grandchildren, all in the name of peace.

      • 302
        Chump says:

        There is a single precedent:

        Greenland joined the European Economic Community as a constituent part of Denmark in 1973. This was the Accession which brought the ‘coalition of the defeated’ – Benelux, France, Italy, Germany – another three members: Denmark, Eire and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

        In 1985, Greenland won independence from the Danes and exited from what became known as the ‘European Union’ in 1993.

      • 328
        WobblyJim says:

        do you think that The Boyos will be doing some surveying work aroung Brussells ?

    • 232
      Jumbo says:

      Never trust those toothless simpletons

    • 243
      maam says:

      If Blair becomes President of All Europe will the Queen have to curtsy to Cherie

  2. 2
    horrorfan24 says:

    Well that’s great we’re all fucked then. Huge EU police state here we come, because cameroon wont give us a referendum. There goes our individuality and national heritage.

    • 6
      going mental says:

      Not yet the cezhs and germens still have to ratfiy

      • 54

        Germans deposited the ratification in Rome on 25 September.

        • 81
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Was that a good day to bury bad news?

        • 187
          A lot of us ain't happy, either says:

          With Constitutional provisos in place that enables the get out clause. No EU constitutional arrangement can ever remove the sovereignty of the ‘Basic Law’ of the Federal Republic says the German Constitutional Court. Parliament in Berlin has passed necessary laws to reinforce this finding.

          • Susie says:

            I’m off to Canada, got enough points, got enough money. And most importantly, Mr. Cameron, I’ll still have my Queen as Head of State, not Cherie Blair.

          • Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

            Have you a link to this news please Aloahe?

      • 80
        Steve Expat says:

        Valcav Claus, 500 million people are relying on you now!

        • 155
          English Viking says:

          Stand by for a car crash/heart attack/suicide with a blunt penknife etc. God Forbid.

          • Anonymous says:

            Don’t vorry. This is all going to ze plaan vere you vill join ze NAFTA and become the 54th state with US, Mexhico, canada and UK. You vill ave ze last larf on europe. Anglo american rulz

        • 340
          As in 1938 England capitulates to Germany and sells the Czechs down the river. says:

          Valcav Claus! Are ye sure ye got his name right?

    • 84
      Atlas shrugged says:

      All that you say and many more things that can at this moment only found in your worst nightmares.

      Once democratic accountability is finally and permanently lost, the ruling class will come in for the proverbial or actual KILL.

      In a sense they already have, but we are very soon to be playing a completely new board game.

      A cruel and authoritarian game of Monopoly, that we don’t know the ever changing rules too, have no control over the money supply of, will not be allowed to own and therefore collect rent on any properties, will be collecting £200 for passing go, but it will be costing the vast majority of us far more simply for reaching it.

      This will result in us all either seeking sanctuary in jail or effectively visiting it for the rest of eternity simply to avoid landing on any other squares, as they will ALL be owned by the government and/or the BANK, who will own the government in any case.

      We already were, without doubt fucked beyond belief, whatever the Irish, British or European people did or said. Getting the middle classes to vote for their own enslavement is simply the icing on the establishments cake. Just yet another stick to beat us with, as all of the carrots run out many years ago.

      I hope that we can now see why over the last 12 years especially authoritarianism has been so relentlessly rampant in westernised so called free democracies. The ruling elites have been busy tattooing the numbers, and warming the ovens YET AGAIN.

      In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. In the Atlas sized concentration camp, known as The New World Order, the man with a rotten potato will be as rich as god almighty.

      • 165
        Truth Sayer says:

        I wouldn’t put your hope in being safe in jail, bringing back the death penatly is part of the plan, do you really think they neglected to build new jails, while letting every tom, adbul and harry in all these years? all the joke sentences where due to incompetence?

        no sir, it was planned from the start so people will beg to bring the death sentence back and then it will be used on them.

        That’s the kind of sick people our masters are.

        • 294
          Atlas shrugged says:

          I was not meaning an institutional jail. I meant staying within your own prison cell, which of course will be YOUR OWN HOME. Which is the prison cell you are now living in, and eternally paying for one way or another. The one that not even your children will own, and/or the one you are personally committed to renovate and maintain.

          A ‘re-educational’ institution ( concentration camp ) will be for people like myself, and others who will refuse to take the mark of the devil, whatever they threaten to do to us. Real criminals will be allowed to roam freely in the streets, as they do now, very much as they always have in the dark secretive corridors of real elitist might.

          Rations will be delivered to your home, and payment only acceptable with an ID chip. All resistance will either be subverted or licensed, very much like in the past and present. Non collectivised therefore far less controllable resistance will only be presented by the individual person, and therefore get the full jack-boot in the face type treatment.

          If it helps.

          However don’t panic, for the above is already the case for the vast majority, and it seems that these servile lab-rats don’t seem to dislike their situation as much as some of us would prefer. After all if you always were a slave with a slave mentality, which most people self-evidently are, then The New World Order will almost pass you by without you even noticing. As it indeed has for over 50% of the Irish people.

    • 141
      The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

      Not so. It requires the people to take to the streets and stuff it to the bastards who keep trying to fuck us over.

      It IS the only way to go now.
      You cannot talk to these arseholes, they have a hive mentality ” the borg”….resistance is futile you WILL be assimilated, YOU WILL serve US.

      So whats left? Insurrection.

      Better to die fighting on your feet than live on your knees with a euroboot across your neck.

      • 153
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        The other point which is not trivial-is that we are an island so it is easier to define ones battles where the french and other Naysayers can’t define their opponents as easily. Europe is a land bloc without nature’s borders not as we are.

        • 188
          John Locke says:

          The other point which is not trivial is that the English have a mind-set that is alien to and antagonistic to the continental mind-set, a difference between pragmatic realism and obsessional hegemonic utopianism, that extends through culture and history. It’s in the DNA. How many times have the English had to get tooled up, get in their boats, go over the channel, and save the continentals from their stupid selves?

      • 169
        Truth Sayer says:

        The only thing is who eventually hijacks the revolution if we succeed, Nazis, Islamists, Communists?

        We’ve been stitched up like a kipper.

        • 217
          Leo Sayer says:

          The only thing is who eventually hijacks the revolution if we succeed, Nazis, Islamists, Communists, Vocalists!!!

          Voices in my Head
          tellin me bout those concentration camps
          where’s my tin-foil hat ?

          • Truth Sayer says:

            many of the jews in germany thought a thing like that could never happen either and look what happened to them.

            in the oven like a dolmio’s pizza.

            so excuse some of us for being a little bit cynical it’s just maybe we don’t want to end up like the jews and value our lifes.

    • 204

      See what I said above: we can simply walk out, since there is no legal process provided for in any of the many EU treaties, for a nation to leave it.

  3. 3
    Mandy says:

    A third referendum?

    To be sure, to be sure?

    • 16
      Gordon brown's moral compass swinger says:

      to be sure, to be sure, to sure, surely?

    • 29
      W.W. says:

      All Hail President Blair!!!

      W.W.

      • 47
        Mr Cup of Tea Father? says:

        This cant be happening what a complete bollox of affairs. New Labour really has done everlasting damage to this country’s sovereignty.

        They should hang their heads in shame… just before we hang them obviously

        • 63
          W.W. says:

          For zat you vill be interned in one of our new ‘re-education’ camps.

          Not like ze concentration camp at all.

          Hail Blair!!

          W.W.

          • Henriech O' Himmler says:

            Excatly mein leiberschorn, seig heil vor zer National Socialist EU vich vill last ein thousand years. Ahh, your ID card is not in order, step into the Mercedes schnell schnell

    • 151
      Peter Handlesmen says:

      Put me down for a turd referendum: I’m in favour

  4. 4
    going mental says:

    how about 1 in england ?

  5. 5
    Not long till labour gone says:

    How do that many people change their mind? Just can’t comprehend it….

    • 7
      going mental says:

      Postal votes?

      • 212

        Liberal pluralist democracy is based on rulers trusting the people who have temporarily lent power to them on a delegated basis. As soon as the rulers do not trust the people, they will stuff the boxes, since the people may otherwise take the wrong decision.

    • 15
      simon says:

      Last time out about 10% of people (20% of no vote and largest block) Voted no because they didn’t understand the treaty. So maybe they didn’t change their mind just made it up.

      • 300
        Mark Oaten says:

        You really think anyone understands it? It was deliberately written so as not to be understood, which is in itself sufficient reason to reject it without taking the trouble to read it.

    • 31
      Pamplemousse says:

      They’re desperate for cash and mistakenly believe that Europe will bail them out (again).

      • 52
        Mr Cup of Tea Father? says:

        They voted NO and then went bankrupt, its a simple case of short-term thinking and misleading propoganda by the Yes campaign that Europe will magically bail them out which obviously it wont do after its got the vote.

        Ireland is in for a terrible decade and frankly after this vote I dont feel much sympathy for them. Also is the IRA now going to start attacking European nations now that they are under occupation by another ‘oppressive regime’?

  6. 8
    Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander says:

    It could be worse, just consider how that ‘principled’ PM gordon Brown has re-invented the workhouse concept – applying it first to young mothers. I am certain the EU, with its undemocratic roots, will enjoy having Blair as President to inact there the oppressive State that he launched on the UK.

    P.S. If Brown thinks have State accomodation is appropriate for ‘receivers of state benefits’ what about MPs being accomodated in State blocks of flats while in London?

  7. 9
    The final NuLabour sellout !! says:

    It’s all down to the Poles and Czechs then – they need to buy time – otherwise it’s hello to President” Bliar and “First Lady” Cherie.

    Let’s be honest if the treaty is ratified by all member states and is law before the Conservative government then there’s really fuck all Dave can do about it !!

    • 55
      Mr Cup of Tea Father? says:

      No Parliament is sovereign and its time it acted that way he can do whatever he damn well likes thank you very much. He has a choice and when one looks at the deep distrust in democratic process in the UK at the moment a very important one to make at that. We need a referendum

      • 59
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Correct. An incoming Government is not bound by the actions of past governments. Any decisions on the Dark Empire will be entirely Daves.

    • 75
      brussels-louts says:

      Cameron can abrogate anty treaty he wishes as Britain is a sovereign state

      a referendum would give the mass public backing needed to kill lisbon and negotiate some sense into the corrupt euro-troughers

      he’s either a lightweight blairite afraid the Ken Clarke might cause a bit of a fuss
      or he has the balls to draw a line in the sand and give us our referendum before Britain has lost all of it’s primacy and lawmaking abilities to an undemocratic gravy train made up of politicians too useless or corrrupt to get voted into their nations main parliaments

    • 193
      English Viking says:

      Technically speaking, an incoming Government IS bound by all it’s predecessor’s agreements and treaties. They can be re-negotiated with agreement from all parties concerned or simply reneged upon by a single party. I think that the idea that pieces of paper have been signed means that we simply must carry on regardless is nonsense. One possibility of reneging would be sanctions, another could even be war. That said, it would not be the first time that Britain had to fight it’s European neighbors en masse to defend it’s sovereignty. I think we must face the fact that any course of action that leads to refusal to comply with previous treaties, or even (please God) withdrawal from the EU will lead to inevitable bloodshed, probably on an enormous scale. Let’s also remember, before we all get carried away with Gordo’s impending failure at the next GE, that Heath(con) started all this garbage with a rigged referendum, Thatcher (con) continued it by signing the Common European Policy Treaty in ’86 and Major (con) put the tin lid on it in ’92 when he signed the Maastricht Treaty. Conservative governments are NOT Euro sceptic. Neither are Labour governments. The Libs are raving pro anything immoral, anti UK or stupid. Three cheeks of the same backside. Don’t fall for the same old garbage more than once, please!

  8. 10
    Disgruntled says:

    UKIP’s chances at the GE have just become rather more solid.

    First mainstream party to promise referendum cleans up, by my reckoning.

    David Cameron may yet have to offer a bone in this direction. Watch it if the polls begin to stutter …

    • 48
      Labour Troll Alert! says:

      NO dissent from the Party Line
      NO criticism of Cameron will be tolerated

      Hoon! Draper!

    • 74
      Henriech O' Himmler says:

      UKIP, ve vill round zem up shortly. No vun must stand in the way of the EU project. Now, your ID card please.

    • 223
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Agree disgruntled but very happy with the UKIP situation. Vote UKIP or can Dave match them and do better?

    • 295
      Archie says:

      What Disgruntled said……………but not holding my breath and almost certainly voting non-mainstream.

    • 335
      Were you dumb enough to vote for Farage? says:

      The only thing mainstream about Ukip is the trough snouting, they out-trough the 3 mainstream parties by a country mile, so Ukip want us out of Europe like they want a hole in the head.

  9. 11
    Trumpeter says:

    All together now “When Irish ayes are smiling”…..

  10. 12
    Anonymous says:

    and is law before the Conservative government then there’s really fuck all Dave can do about it !!”

    No? I suggest we invade Poland!

    • 58
      Mr Cup of Tea Father? says:

      Can you imagine the insurgency in the UK if we picked a fight with the Poles? Christ no plumbers and builders the country would implode without a shot being fired!

    • 181
      salty balls says:

      invade poland? look what happend to the last twat that tried it

      • 255
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        the majority of the patriotic foreigners who weren’t allowed to vote on the treatyconstitution will be on our side remember.

  11. 14
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Best of three sounds good to me

    Let’s hope they don’t now “bounce the Czechs”

  12. 17
    Bruce Bellend says:

    What timescale are we looking at?

    will Call me Dave save the day when he becomes PM and call a referendum?

    • 33
    • 201
      English Viking says:

      No.

    • 275
      Atlas shrugged says:

      No, and certainly not if he has any intention of seeing his kids grow-up.

      If the ruling elite class suspected that Cameron had the slightest intention of going off-plan he would be cleaned up quicker then a star ship in warp drive. If Cameron does not know this, he is either extremely incompetent, or dangerously so.

      What further evidence is required for the people to finally understand that socialism and corporate capitalism are one of the same thing? Blood brothers conceived and nurtured by the same set of parents. Who are now claiming there long waited for birth rights.

      You can be absolutely certain that if there is a consensus between the worlds political class that freedom, and its blood brother the FREE-MARKET are to blame for our current predicament, then the EXACT OPPOSITE is in fact the TRUE situation.

  13. 18
    Obama is a twat says:

    So how do the Irish think they will be better off now? They won’t be getting any more freebie handout like they did in the past as there are loads of poor eastern European Countries after that cash and the Irish will probably end up with a hated Brit as their President

    • 228
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      hahahah – the irish will end up with Blair as their president and we’ill be free. free. Free. Vote UKIP

  14. 19
    Snotty says:

    I think it’s time for Dave to reveal his hand. People need to know just what he intends to do about this shower of shit. McTwat has well and truly fucked us over on this one and people expect Dave to offer a concrete solution to the EU problem.

    “We won’t let matters rest there” is not enough any more. It’s clear that the EU is fundamentally undemocratic and what’s worse, many Europeans actually support the fact that the Irish have been told to go away and vote the “right” way this time!

    • 220
      English Viking says:

      History is repeating itself. So am I, but here goes. In ’97, enormous numbers of previously Conservative voters changed sides and voted Labour, presumably because they had some deep, political convictions and decided to change from what they thought was a useles, uncaring, inept and downright wicked Government to good, upright, decent, moral one. They ended up with the same old, same old. Fast forward 13 years, and enormous numbers of previously Labour supporting voters will need to switch sides BACK to the Cons. The so-call ‘floating voter’. I prefer to call them morons, whose vote is decided on how much cash they think they are going to get from the Gov, regardless of all the other damage the insane policies of these criminals will inflict on everybody else. Divide and rule. Very effective, bit old fashioned though. I would have thought more people would have realised what was going on by now. In another 10 years, the same ‘floating voters’ will be desperate to get rid of the ‘evil Tories’ and elect a Labour Gov. If you want change, real change, that benefits most people and not just the few, DO NOT vote Labour, Conservative or Liberal. WAKE UP!!

      • 234
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        In ten years time floating voters along with any other desenters will be floating-in the euro channel. Voting won’t mean shit because it is illegal under Lisbon to denounce the eu. Doh.

  15. 20
    Trumpeter says:

    The Czechs vill do as they are told

  16. 22
    lolol says:

    Welcome to your new masters Ireland,soon to be headed by your old masters
    frying pan and fires etc , waste of time kicking off the traces wasn’t it,you like us will end up being two little countries on the edge of a continent owned and payed for.

  17. 23
    Man With a Very Hot Bladder says:

    I’d settle for one referendum in England.

  18. 25
    Socialism only killed 100 million last century, so much to do... says:

    He can repeal laws can’t he. And treaties can be abrogated – I believe we need to give the EU some advance notice of treaties we are going to repeal.

    In that case, the three or so years whilst the treaty dies out should be fun; I imagine thousands of civil servants stalling any EU directives, *not* gold-plating existing legislation, not paying fines and emphasising the soon-to-be competitive UK to the rest of the world.

    Of course, it won’t be the same civil servants who are in post now – we need people whose first allegiance is to this country.

    • 43
      Labour Troll Alert! says:

      NO dissent from the Party Line
      NO criticism of Cameron will be tolerated

      You must be a NuLiebour Troll
      Fuck off to Labour List hoon we do not want your Dolly Draper kind here

      • 64
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        From your Dalek delivery, you must be a BeeBot.
        Chump!

      • 83
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        Please change Nuliebour to NuLiebore… otherwise great post.

        • 116
          Dildo Brainfree says:

          Who said downtrodden conservative party functionaries had no sense of irony?

          • Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

            There was an article in the Independent I read yesterday that was saying 60% of tory party members want a referendum. Dave is in a good position but only if he wishes to carry patriotism and the people with him. If he did he would have an easy ride on everyother policy as long as it wasn’t socialist and under total UK sovereignty.

      • 113
        Socialism only killed 100 million last century, so much to do... says:

        What the hell are you talking about? Where in my post is there *anything* that stands for ZaNuLiebor?

        • 115
          Socialism only killed 100 million last century, so much to do... says:

          Damn, that comment is directed at #42

    • 148
      Cicero says:

      Quite right – I recall our being told that we could ‘never’ back out of the ERM, once in it was binding, forever, etc etc.
      Got out, economy recovered. QED.

    • 175
      Comment says:

      The Sword in the stone begins to move

    • 219

      Why tell them that we plan in the future to denounce and abrogate their treaties? That will merely alerts them to spend money trying to bribe people.

      Simply advance without the week-long-prelim-barrage….leave the EU (by txtmsg, or twitter and fax if you must), tear up the treaties on Youtube, then tell them we have done it and we’ve gone.

      Instantly, all EU-derived legislation will become void. All of it. All.

      The only immediate task is to publish a very long list of al the actions that people are now allowed to do.

      I bet you this act will be very popular, and will, if an election is called straight away, result in a landslide for whoever is brave enough to do it.

  19. 26
    bofl says:

    all praying that the eu will bail them out economically?

    it was having the wrong eu imposed interest rates that helped to create the economic boom/bust in the first place……….

    well done irish people……..you have struggled against the British for 500 years only to vote for another dictatorship……….

    take a bow………..

    • 66
      amazon driver says:

      Easy now, the result’s not in yet. One thing the Irish dont like is being bullied, and they have been right royally,also they like nothing better than to suprise by doing the exact opposite of what is expected. The mess their economy is in, I would be devastated at another lurch towards our loss of soveriegnty, but wouldnt blame them.
      Its just a shame the majority wont grasp that a yes vote is very unlikely to improve their lot in the slightest. I feel sick to my stomach that in my lifetime there is a real chance that France and Germany will achieve through politics and bribery that which they failed to do by force. They say cometh the hour, cometh the man..well where are you? who is the one that will lead the fight against this EU dictatorship? stand up now and millions of us will vote for you.

    • 68
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      Singleness of Purpose is not an Irish Core Value.

    • 156
      Strongbow says:

      700 against the Brits.

  20. 27
    Sukyspook says:

    For the first time in my life I’m going to buy The Sun today (groan) to see what goes on between Cameron and Lamont, who has an interesting career history pre and post parliament. . .

    Ties in with Osborne funder Lady Serena . . . . . . . . . .

    Tories might talk of ‘referendum’ to acquire EU sceptic votes but the word ‘referendum’ isn’t in the globalists ‘agenda’ for England/UK.

    • 140
      Engineer says:

      On page 3 Harriet, 59, from Planet Tharg, (48-40-54) shows us her potential and says, “I just love the attention from you boys. Have you seen my fav. website, Punternet?”

  21. 28
    Trumpeter says:

    With what question 23

  22. 30
    Make Britain Great again ! says:

    CAMERON HAS REQUESTED TO THE CZECH PM to hold up the ratification until the Conservatives get in & we can hold a referendum ourselves!

    GOOD MOVE DAVE !

    • 38
      lolol says:

      How long did the Czechs last out the last time,they have Germany and France against then this time

      • 76
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        The East Europeans have were liberated by the Regan/Thatcher axis from 50 years of Socialist rule. Are they now expected to vote for an eternity of the same? They won’t go down without a fight.

    • 78
      W.W. says:

      If he does, and pulls it off, he will go down along side Winnie as far as I’m concerned.

      However I am not overly hopefull.

      W.W.

    • 86
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      But won’t this delay President Blairs from assuming his throne?

    • 133
      Sell Britain Out again ! says:

      A REQUEST!

      GOOD MOVE DAVE

      WHO NEEDS A REFERENDUM WHEN YOU CAN POLITELY REQUEST?

      That will stop the EU monster in it’s tracks

    • 224

      All Dave C has to do, if Lisbon is ratified, is merely state quite calmly that his government will denounce and abrogate it. It puts the ball in Brussels’ court, will have the effect of encouraging Vaclav Klaus to do the right thing in the meantime, and will open the door to people’s right conclusions about who was responsible for cameron’s assassination just before the General Election (or just after it) when that comes about.

      Lisbon…it’s only a “scrap of paper” ….after all.

  23. 34
    Dave the Lying Treacherous Nepotistic Twit Who Has Never Done a Proper Day's Work in His Life says:

    We in the Conservatives are still trying to make our minds up about a referendum. So vote for us and you might get one – or not.

    • 46
      Labour Troll Alert! says:

      You must be a NuLiebour Troll
      Fuck off to Labour List hoon we do not want your Dolly Draper kind here

      NO dissent from the Party Line
      NO criticism of Cameron will be tolerated

      • 91
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        A Continuity Chump!

      • 92
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        Who said downtrodden socialist party functionaries had no sense of irony?

        • 125
          Dildo Brainfree says:

          Please change socialist to conservative… otherwise great post.

          • Master Baiter says:

            You must be a NuLiebore Troll
            Fuck off to Labour List hoon we do not want your Jonty kind here

            NO dissent from the Party Line
            NO criticism of Cameron will be tolerated

          • Anonymous says:

            You must be a NuLiebour Troll
            Fuck off to Labour List hoon we do not want your Dolly Draper kind here

            NO dissent from the Party Line
            NO criticism of Cameron will be tolerated

  24. 36
    • 145
      Steve Expat says:

      Very broke. Hopefully no bloody leaflets and posh adverts from them before the election!

      • 229

        Postal voting and concommittant box-stuffing will do it for them, certainly in the rotten and pocket boroughs they have deliberately created, full of miserable robbed housebound wretches who won’t understand the forms etc etc etc

    • 214
      Engineer says:

      I asked the same question on this blog a couple of months ago.

      The answer, from someone who seemed to know, is that the Labour party have declared debts of about £18 million on their accounts, and are thought to have real debts totalling about £24 million.

      They are skint.

  25. 37
    fudge says:

    Dictatorship? EU Police State? Tin foil hat anyone?

    • 42
      lolol says:

      Don’t need a tinfoil hat,it will happen.

      • 51
        fudge says:

        Moron

        • 82
          Henriech O' Himmler says:

          Fudge, when people were told that the common market would evolve into a political union they said piss off, when people were told that the powers in the EU where working toward one currency for the whole of Europe they said fuck off mate, when they were told that the EU would impose arrest warrants across Europe, negating individual national citizens rights they said fuck off won’t happen, you get the picture yet?

  26. 41
    ian e says:

    So, once again, we have to ask – what is the point of the Irish?

  27. 45
  28. 49
    R.M.Rowan says:

    If Cameron reneges on his promise for a referendum my vote will go to UKIP and I think with the result of the con home poll a lot of other tories will follow suite and if it results in a hung parliament so be it,because D.C.will be as bad as Brown.

    • 62
      lolol says:

      If he does I will go for the destruction vote,the socialist BandP or even Liebour,another few years of socialism will bring total destruction the UK and split us into component parts,hence we have a chance to start a renewel of England,the EU willget rid of us like a turd hitting a fan as Brits pissed off are not nice to get involved with.

    • 106
      Anonymous says:

      Seconded

      If there’s no point in a conservative government, perhaps a hung one (metaphorically, unfortunately) is our least worst option

      • 290
        Ivor Van Pikey says:

        Don’t mess with the Brits. Period! Too much lost blood and heritage to stand for. I’m aching for it if it becomes my duty.

    • 128
      The Ghost of Robert Kilroy Silk says:

      You’re hardly alone in that view

      Cameron faces revolt on Europe

      Vast majority of Tory members oppose position on Lisbon Treaty, poll reveals

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-faces-revolt-on-europe-1797042.html

    • 163
      The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

      Vote UKIP! Fuck CMD he’s a lightweight and will renege.

  29. 57
    The cunt of Monte Cristo says:

    I laugh at these nomark nations like eire, they’re so desperate to continue feeding on the gigantic tit of Reichmarshall Blair’s Fascist construct they are all too willing to throw away their own statehood.

    The Fascists have luminaries such as the king of airbourne pikeys, Michael O’Leary cheering them on, which says it all.
    Forget Oirish statehood you plebs, bloodsoaked Blair and his gang of faceless and nameless Belgian paper shufflers are your masters now.

    If only those sodding Scotch weren’t so damn canny as to want to avoid the fate of tiny pointless nations which the EU seeks to subsume.

    Those swine have it all ways.
    Huge funding from English taxpayers and the national structural deficit, a say in English political matters when it suits them, ie Tuition Fees, yet they wont take the leap to force the creation of a fully ‘independent’ state, because they know Scotchland will become just another outpost of the EU colony.

    And I am unanimous in that

  30. 60
    dazed and confused and completely fed up says:

    This is a disaster.

    • 73
      lolol says:

      It’s only a disaster if you think it’s a disaster,think of it as an opportunity.

      • 88
        dazed and confused and completely fed up says:

        An opportunity for what – complete self-subordination to corrupt megalomaniacs?

  31. 69
    Roger Rigid says:

    Next stop, world domination but who will be the leader?

    Hope there’s no fighting over it!

    • 93
      Sukyspook says:

      Nah, the ruler will be the Antichrist and will only have one eye – so eye(!)ther it’s Gorgon Brown or Charles Anthony Lynton Bliar – one ‘i’, geddit!!

      Both have had a serious blow from which they’ve ‘come back’, Gorgon to the head/eye and Bliar was ‘blown away’ in a not-so-secret ‘stand-down’ pact to allow Brown to feck up the country further.

      OR IS GORGON THE ANTICHRIST AND BLIAR THE MESSIAH lolol, lmfao, rofl…gulp.

      (Most of us don’t believe this crap – but apprently ‘they’ do).

      • 297
        Roger Rigid says:

        A New World Order, where nations are swallowed up in an ever expanding union, ending up with a whole world union ruled by the super rich as they have the time, money and the insanity to do so, but, who will be the big boss?

        Bet they still have trouble with the Taliban though.

  32. 71
    Grizzelda Guid says:

    The thought of Bliar becoming President is more then I can take, just the thought of that c**t in such a powerful position beggars belief. they will let Turkey join next, and then watch the fucking mosque’s sprout up in England. I dread whats happening to this once Great Country. I’m voting UKIP.

    • 85
      Anonymous says:

      Agreed, doesn’t the idea of President Blair and (puke) First Lady Cherie fill your hearts with pride. I too am voting UKIP.

      • 250

        The canny Eurones won’t have Blair as “President”.

        (1) They don’t exist, and they know it.
        (2) He’s from the UK, which has consistently failed to toe the line absolutely in public (in private it’s a different matter, but it’s the public face that British PMs present that matter to these Communists.)
        (3) He’s Scotch.

        The “presidents” of this outfit will always be French or German or Italian, for as long as it lasts

        - 12 years and two months -

        • 289
          Anonymous says:

          Scots, not “Scotch”.

          • English Viking says:

            English people deliberately call sweaty socks ‘scotch’ because we know uppity porridge gobblers will get the hump. How’s your skirt?

    • 95
      The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

      If it’s any consolation “president” Blair would be Al-Qaeda’s #2 assassination target – in the world!

      The thought of seeing paramedics carrying his charred and bloodied corpse from a smoldering Brussels monolith gives me a warm feeling all over!

      • 278
        Susie says:

        Yes that vision of loveliness has occurred to me too. But then we’d get President Cherie (read ‘The Ghost’ by Robert Harris)… so perhaps not.

        Better would be to keep the powder dry and impeach Bliar for war crimes once he’s President and bring the whole heap of shite tumbling down. A legitimate international body with a war criminal as their head of state?

  33. 72
    The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

    Does this mean “Mrs Gob” will be first lady?

    • 89
      Karl Markstein says:

      Yes and you will show respect to her and her husband pleb. The great Socialist experiment marches on. Dave is just our puppet get used to it right wing wankers, the EU is proof that socialism cannot be beaten.

      • 179
        Truth Sayer says:

        except when it implodes in on it’s self like the USSR and Communist China before it became Capitalist China.

  34. 77
    dazed and confused and completely fed up says:

    Seems like the start of World War 2 again- Irish neutral – unbearable pressure put Poland and Czechoslovakia – can Britain still stand up to fight against European megalomaniacs?

    • 100
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      With the Great Gurner in charge?

      • 111
        Engineer says:

        No. But he goes soon anyway. Sooner the better.

        • 143
          Master Baiter says:

          It would only be sooner if he would call an early GE which involves making a decision. So no chance there then. The alternative is if someone in New Labour grows a pair of balls and sets up a leadership challenge. So… I think we have to endure another 7 months of national destruction.

    • 107
      Engineer says:

      We did it before, we’ll do it again. Might not be easy, or quick, or pretty. But if we want our country back, we have to.

    • 178
      General Jock Strap says:

      yeah, nip over to Dunkirk then run away, er, tactically withdraw.

    • 182
      Anonymous says:

      Except we don’t have America or the Commonwealth to help us this time.

  35. 79
    going mental says:

    Can we try gordon for treason now?

    • 102
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      As he’s declared himself an insurgent, Nick him under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and throw away the key.

    • 144
      How to buy the Irish..... says:

      And the queen. Royal assent was required before our ratification was deposited wasn’t it.

      • 262
        rick says:

        The monarch was meant to be our final line of defense against dictatorship. The queen was also the link between our past and present culture and had a clear duty to protect us as a Nation – for that purpose she is still head of all the armed forces. If she finds that she is unable to fulfill that role, then maybe we should ask ourselves what exactly are the royal family for.

  36. 94

    This outpouring of anti-European bile is really, really depressing. The Irish people’s concerns causing the No vote last time have been resolved to their satisfaction so a Yes vote this time is perfectly reasonable. Assuming that the Irish yes vote is confirmed this afternoon and that the Czechs and Poles do their stuff before Cameron can get his hands on the treaty and wreck the EU in the process, the treaty will help to streamline decision-making in the EU and give it more weight in global discussions of the great issues of our time — climate change, global poverty, international terrorism, rebalancing the world trade and payments system, accommodating China, India, Europe and Japan as new great powers, etc. Outside the EU Britain would be powerless to have any say or to protect its interests in any of these great debates: we need a strong united voice for the EU for all our sakes. Wake up, you small-minded out-dated little Englanders!

    • 98
      going mental says:

      No its just coz we was promised a referendum and then didnt get it

      • 321

        Not true. We were promised a referendum on a completely different treaty, now defunct. The Goebbels doctrine — that if a lie is told often enough, everyone will start to believe it — ought to be banned from the blogosphere. Instead it seems to be flourishing.

        Did those screaming for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty scream even more loudly for the much more far-reaching Maastricht treaty? Go on, persuade me.

    • 108
      Voice of reality says:

      Yes – the Irish will have shown how quickly they’ll take the Brussels bribes. They’d sell their grannies if they thought it would get them out of the financial mess they’d made for themselves.

      • 196
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Correction Voice of reality.

        ‘..if they thought it would get them out of the financial mess they’d made for themselves.’, should read

        ‘..if they thought it would get them out of the financial mess the EU made for them.’. Let’s be fair.

        If Ireland had it’s own currency, it’s own central bank and a half decent Government (unlike here in the UK), their currency would have appreciated and the central bank could have raised interest rates to put a lid on the property aseet bubble. QED.

        The dumb Irish public just don’t understand why they got into this mess. Subsequent generations will pay the price for their ignorance.

    • 117
      Zen O'Fobia says:

      help to streamline decision-making in the EU and give it more weight in global discussions of the great issues of our time — climate change

      STOP there! If that ain’t reason enough to stop the relentless bureacracy then what is?

    • 121
      dazed and confused and completely fed up says:

      The outpouring of pro-European propaganda is really, really, really, really upsetting, nauseating, vomit-inducing, deluded, depressing, insane, manic and truly horrific.

    • 122

      This is not anti Europe bile, but anti EU bile. You know, that undemocratic, sovereignty-leeching parasitical tumour.

      You can tell the EU shills, because they almost always disingenuously blur the two so as to falsly slur those who are interested in freedom over dictatorship.

      • 173
        Grizzelda Guid says:

        I so agree with you, its the fact that democracy has been leeching away for the last decade and now with this so called treaty it will disappear altogether, how can anyone not see that this is a dictatorship with a war criminal in charge.

      • 247
        Sukyspook says:

        Here here Roger – I love Europe and Europeans but I hate the EU monster.

        EU shills indeed. I spit on your EU flag.

    • 124
      duh! says:

      You are talking through your hole.

    • 129
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      1, They did it for the money.
      2, You are a Socialist Parrot
      3, Global Warming is a scam made up by lefties to terrify the world into acceptance of leftyism.
      4, China, India, and Japan have done very well in accomodating themselves. For a start, they don’t buy in to the Global Warming scam.
      5. Europe is a camel of a power- a “great” state designed by a committee.

    • 139
      Socialism only killed 100 million last century, so much to do... says:

      And suppose you don’t agree with the policies of the EU? How do you democratically change them? Short answer – you can’t (unless you’re leftist and have a pet project to grow control over the electorate).

      It’s really very simple – do you want control over your own life, or do you want someone else to make decisions for you. At the moment, with the EU, it’s very much the latter – and who decides what those decisions are?

      The whole history of the EU has been one long continual lie (EEC->EC-EU) – is it any wonder that people don’t believe what the EU says anymore?

    • 149
      Master Baiter says:

      The old climate change blackmail. Works every time.

    • 162
      Lord Effingham says:

      Are you being ironic BB? Just who will have a say in the ‘great issues of our time’? certainly not the people of Britain, who weren’t given any fucking say in whether they wanted to be part of this ‘project’.

      Prick.

    • 185
      The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

      Fuck off you pencil necked cocksucker.

      Why wasnt a NO vote acceptable huh?
      Why should a YES vote be any more acceptable than a NO vote, braindamage?

      You eurococksuckers all have the morals of a rapist- NO means NO fuckwit.

      • 320

        What elegantly persuasive language! I’m impressed.

        • 322
          The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

          Well im glad you are, obviously youre as easily impressed by my bad language as you are by the eu bullshit you greedily lap up from the anus of brussels.

          Its no surprise thick twats like you who hate the english bother to come on here and spout your anti english euroshit, it must make you feel really proud to be a part of something.
          That something is a hive, youre just a fucking eurodrone now, a useful idiot with no individuality along with the rest of the moronicans who couldnt be arsed to take their responsibilites seriously and vote to be free, not ruled by unemployable wankers like you.

          The english will never be lorded over by brussels.
          Pitchforks it is then.

          • As in 1938 England capitulates to Germany and sells the Czechs down the river. says:

            I think, TGOCP, it’s time to start taking the tablets.

    • 274
      English Liberation Front says:

      Oh, come on you dope. Socialism grew as a struggle against the “establishment”, a great cause, in the name of which the end was justified by any means.

      Now that Socialism IS the establishment they have had to find new great causes to “struggle” against – climate change, global poverty, international terrorism, etc. It is just an inherent part of their political dogma. It is how they operate. Socialism is a religion and those promoting it are religious fanatics.

      Within the pursuit of the great cause those leading it get to enjoy super-rich lifestyles, unbridled power and Patek Philippe watches whilst fondly imagining they are good people doing good things. It is the little people – yes, even little Englanders, perhaps especially little Englanders – who suffer.

      Socialism with its imaginary demons invented to keep the population controlled and exploited is the most pernicious, hypocritical and sham philosophy ever imposed. It is the bindweed that ultimately brings totalitarianism and dictatorship, persecution, camps and death. Unless you happen to be one of the blood-sucking elite, the champagne socialists, riding on its tail, the greedy hypocrites that ordinary people vote for “because they are for the working man”.

      Councils, regions, governments, Brussells. How many levels of oppression and control does one family need? For every one ordinary working man how many public sector bureaucrats devising more rules and regulations for him, more things to ban from his life? It is a sham. A con. Great if you’re part of the party – not so hot if you’re not.

      Reject it in all its guises. Resist them.

  37. 101

    best of three?

    Fabians and Commies operate a ratchet, remember.

  38. 105
    Trumpeter says:

    After this YES result we can all look forward to a more transparent and democratic E.U.

  39. 109
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    The Irish establishment are a bunch of shits for putting it to a second referendum just because they didn’t like the No result last time.

    • 342
      As in 1938 England capitulates to Germany and sells the Czechs down the river. says:

      I think you should refrain from commenting on an area that you obviously know fuck all about.

  40. 112
    Spider says:

    we’re all fucked. there simply is no point anymore. why bother working hard? why bother getting an education? if you do you’re going to be taxed to death, legislated to the point of insanity and told how to spend your own money in order to pay for the idle feckless rump of a socialist superstate, and it’s ruling elite. better to be jobless, spawning illiterate sociopathic asbo wielding bullies and murderers in waiting…
    they’ve won at bending democracy till it’s twisted and tortured carcass of a once proud idea lies battered and bleeding on the cutting room floor of history. there is no peaceful way back.

    • 176
      Truth Sayer says:

      true, it’s a ‘brave new world’ come to life.

    • 184
      Engineer says:

      Not quite.

      Your assessment of the state of things is pretty much spot on. The loony lefties seeking to subjugate the British people have had a good run, but that means they’ve declared their hand. All decent people can see what has happened, and where it’s going, and most don’t like it, not a bit.

      It is by no means certain that decent people can take their country back, but if they dont try, if they don’t fight back, they won’t.

      Start by voting Anything But Labour. Look after yourself and your family, do a bit for the neighbourhood, for the community, for the common good. Do some charitable work, join a political party if that appeals.

      But DON’T give up.

      • 251
        Sukyspook says:

        Here, here Engineer – lovely sentiments.

        THIS ISN’T THE END, IT’S THE END OF THE BEGINNING.

      • 281
        Socialism only killed 100 million last century, so much to do... says:

        A new rallying call – ANYONE BUT LABOUR!

      • 310
        Longshanks says:

        They all buy into the gravy train, the only real opposition is villified by the military industrial complex, the central banks and their media.Why do you think the bnp is so censured? DC will not give a referendum whilst he has a hole in his arse,.If you vote for any of the ‘approved’ parties the slide to the destruction of our nation will continue inexorably.

  41. 119
    Charlies Anal says:

    Maybe Brown was to right to deny us a referendum,it would’ve been more money down the drain if the bastards won’t take No for an answer.

  42. 123

    Fight back at Voice of the Resistance

    We cannot have Blair foisted upon us.

    We need to lobby other European nations and people directly, to express the anger that a Blair presidency would generate in Britain. The fact that a nation is agitating against its own candidate would cause great uncertainty in the corridors of Brussels and elsewhere.

    http://tvotr.blogspot.com/2009/10/president-blair-how-to-stop-him.html

    • 267
      Heir-to-Blair says:

      “We cannot have Blair foisted upon us.”
      You don’t need to vote for Cameron if you don’t want to
      Tebbit won’t

  43. 127
    Anonymous says:

    Oh God what have the Irish done. They have saddled us all with President Blair.

  44. 130
    dazed and confused and completely fed up says:

    can Ireland have another referendum because it’s the wrong answer?

  45. 132
    Ratsniffer says:

    The Irish have succumbed to what Europe does best: bribery and blackmail.

    There’s nothing the EU likes more than to chuck money around, mainly because they have a lot of it (from us). Add to that the implied “well, if you don’t vote the right way this time, there’s a recession, so you can forget any help from us” routine and you have the pefect strong arm tactics to scare a polulation into giving you the “right result.”

    Democracy? Nope. It’s the economic jack-boot.

    • 276
      Ivor Van Pikey says:

      Yey and most people can now see it for what it is. Blair as President is the fucking Icing! Fools. True story: One of my proudest moments was not taking delivery of a brand new model of car (In 2005) but saying to the salesman on the forecourt-
      “What’s That!” pointing to the euro flag on the number plate. I said “Phone me when you’ve put British Plates on and it better be today”

  46. 135
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    One day there may well be a united Ireland governed by Europe. Looks like the IRA were fighting the wrong people for all these years.

    • 211
      Master Baiter says:

      The IRA’s aim was to have a united Marxist Ireland. They’re gonna get it.

      • 343
        As in 1938 England capitulates to Germany and sells the Czechs down the river. says:

        Sinn Féin, the political tail of the IRA dog, campaigned for a no vote. Whenever it was put to them that they had found themselves some very strange bedfellows, the battier elements (and even the non-batty elements) of the English right wing, they just mumbled something and shuffled along.

  47. 137
    Trumpeter says:

    Delegates at the Conservative Party conference must demand to know what Cameron intends to do if the Treaty is in force by the time his party is in Government.

    • 142
      Sell Britain Out again ! says:

      hahahhaha! they’ll do as their fucking told

    • 189
      REEVO says:

      He will do nothing because he can’t. No more than he will stop Blair becoming EU President. He may make squeaking noises but he is no Maggie Thatcher so don’t expect too much.

      This country needs leaders not looting administrators pretending they actually make a difference while cozying up to the EU for a few crumbs of power.

    • 235
      The final NuLabour sellout !! says:

      If he doesn’t gain power – er NOT a lot really !! The most he can do is put some pyschological pressure on the EU and give the Czech and Poles a hope of British help as soon as he becomes PM(although we don’t have a very good record on guarantees to the Czechs or worthwhile guarantees to the Poles in the short term)

      He could issue a statement stating that if he becomes PM – a Conservative government would take steps to abrogate the Treaty of Lisbon pending a referendum as the original ratification by the British parliament did not have electoral legitimacy and that Parliament had no authority to ratify because the matter was never put to the British people as promised by the governing party’s(Labour) 2005 Manifesto and that they wriggled out of that commitment with some tortuous logic and downright lies(although nothing new there from Labour I’m afraid – they’ve never been straight with anyone in 12 years)

      If reports are to be believed the Germans are already worried about 2010 being peppered with “Guerilla War” by the British Conservative Government who could refuse to implement any of the treaties provisions throwing the EU into chaos(any legal action against the UK government would be ineffective in the short term anyway and take years through the courts)In the interim we should start to campaign against Blair as EU President – the man was unfit for office of PM and he’s unfit for the post of EU President

    • 245
      Anonymous says:

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Now go away and stop trying to shit stir you UKIP troll.

  48. 157
    Anonymous says:

    So you hate the idea of the english governing you?

    But the empty promise of cash from the EU – which you will NOT get – is enough to allow Tony Blair to rule you?

    You stupid, stupid, people.

    Looks like all the jokes about the thick Irish were based on fact…

    • 272
      Ivor Van Pikey says:

      Don’t be too cruel on them. They were emotionally blackmailed ffs.

      • 344
        "Parachute Jumping" - by Willy Maykit says:

        Economically you mean? Ireland’s economy, like its banks, is basically bust.

        Like Spain, a backward, rural, agrarian country was made to look modern and dynamic on the back of an infrastructure and construction boom funded by loans from the EU. And, just like Weimar Germany, once the loan taps were turned off, everything went phut!

        Fundamentally, nothing changed for the Irish in terms of their understanding of the Lisbon Treaty or what its constitutional impact might be. I’m willing to bet no more people understand it now than did following the first referendum.

        What did change were three things:-

        1. Fear of total economic collapse in the wake of the “credit crunch” following economic blackmail by the EU;

        2. The proposed “president” being a man of Rome, and hence “one of us” as far as the Irish were concerned, to say nothing of his not being English, but rather a celt (his plummy English accent a mere by-product of his education at one of Edinburgh’s most exclusive private schools, Fettes); and

        3. With Germany and the UK being the only net contributors to the EU, the sweet irony for the Irish of knowing those damn Brits were effectively going to be bailing them out of the financial mess they’d got themselves into.

        • 345
          Raddykal Mullah In St James* Park says:

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          IT IS THE ENGLISH THAT THE EYERISH H8*

          KROMWELLS* SUCCESSION

          THE BRITS ARE AN AMERRYKAN INVENTSHUN

          PHONY TONY BLAIR IS A CULT

          THE CULT BLEEDER OF A POT NOODLE PAPISH WREEPUBLEAKAN POLITyKAL CULTURE

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          ASTA

  49. 159
    Aberdeen Angus McDayie says:

    Who noticed the Blaggers Blagueurs Claque not-so-subtle pro-vote propaganda on t’WatO R4 yesterday?

    The story was on the face of it about Icelanders’ reluctance to cave into the bullying of Brown and assorted cronies in the Netherlands, EU, and IMF to pay for crashed Iceland banks. Icelanders appear to have agreed among themselves to offer repayment conditional on future economic growth, but Brown and The Bullies want their pound of flesh, toot d’sweet. Clearly, if they have their way, the only growth in Iceland will be negative for the foreseeable future. The last time something like the Icelanders’ conditional deal was tried out in practice was in Peru in the 80s, and there the outcome was worse than if it had simply declared a debt moratorium up front – a decision that tens of countries have in fact taken in dealing with similar situations, although of course nothing about any of that was mentioned in the package.

    The underlying message to the Irish of this Iceland story was that if you are an undecided voter, here is something to scare the bejeesus out of you into voting yes.

  50. 160
    Trumpeter says:

    Latest: Some ballot boxes show 90% YES !

  51. 166
    PJ Tharsaile says:

    > Guido feels a bit guilty about not going home to vote

    You have forgotten that as a non-resident you are not entitled to vote.

  52. 172
    Truth Sayer says:

    If Blair becomes president of the New Holy Roman Empire, we’ll end up with another crusade.

    • 198
      Charlemagne says:

      can we cut this shit about new Holy Roman Empires and Reichs. The only empire that’s being built is a bolshevik one. The Germans were slaughtered fighting Bolshevism that sought to take over Europe and the world. They’ve achieved their goal. The old Soviet Union collapsed but under the Blair, Bush, Clinton, Brown, Sarkozy, Merkel puppets the United States and Europe have become tyrannical regimes run by and for oligarchs. Obama’s job is to seal the deal for the new Amerika. Christianity is dead, slain by the atheists and talmudists and Germany has been brainwashed and neutered.

      • 237
        The Lizards are coming says:

        Hahahahaha!

        Satire is never more than a post away on Guidos blog

        yeah, shut the fuck up about vast Catholic or Nazi conspiracies!
        because it’s a vast Communist Conspiracy!!!

        you couldn’t write better comedy than this

        • 252
          Truth Sayer says:

          The Germans are converting to islam and turning up in Pakistan by the droves i read in the telegraph.

      • 257
        Sukyspook says:

        There are many ‘fronts’ Charlemagne, one agenda….

        ‘They’ control both sides and manipulate with the ‘third way’…the middle man if you will – ‘they’ control us, ‘they’ control the corporations that make the stuff we buy and ‘they’ control the stuff we buy it with…

        Simples! sadly….

        • 266
          Ivor Van Pikey says:

          Er Sukyspook- what these tyrants never learn from history is that when one has nothing to lose in a battle-not even fear of death-then they lose always. Tyrants fear death because thay can’t enjoy their trappings.

  53. 208
    Anti-social old git says:

    If we get lumbered with an EU president, let’s at least pick someone suitable for the job. My starters for 10:

    - Wayne Rooney
    - Zippy
    - Anyone who has won Big Brother
    - Stan Boardman

    • 263
      Ivor Van Pikey says:

      I’ll not hear that defeatist talk. Start selecting your local Home Guard Captain instead.

    • 287
      SarahN says:

      Jean Claude van Damme – has all the necessary qualifications, including being from Belgistan.

  54. 210
    Trumpeter says:

    I’m most content with the overall result, engineer – all will be well.

    • 221
      Engineer says:

      For now, maybe. Not for ever.

    • 304
      Mongrel says:

      Rigged or not, ethical or not, it’s the decision you wanted, so all is well. What a fine democrat you are! Ever thought of moving to Iran or Afghanistan, where they share your views?
      And it’s a sad day when it takes Sinn Fein to expose the fact that you are spending taxpayers’ money in your campaign to impose your views on the rest of us.
      http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/17400

      • 305
        Mongrel says:

        Sorry Trumpeter I do apologise. I forgot Zimbabwe. They rig elections there as well.

    • 324
      The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

      You are a peenarse.

  55. 227
    Kevin says:

    After years of half the population and the government living recklessly and spending like there’s no tomorrow, Ireland is now effectively bankrupt.

    Most of them know they are up shit creek and need the German’s to keep them afloat.

    They’ll get their bail-out now but they’re still going to have to face austerity for years to come.

    The Irish were like kids left alone in a sweetshop. Now they’re going to have their arses spanked and sent to the naughty step.

    • 271
      Anonymous says:

      What’s happening to the one million euro+ 2bed terraced houses in Dublin and all those overpriced apartments Irish “investors” (sic) bought in Bulgaria and every other shitheap across Europe?

      LMAO!!

    • 288
      Susie says:

      Why are they so different from us in that regard?

      Mrs Thatcher’s 1978 conference speech:

      “The root of the matter is this: we have been ruled by men who live by the illusion that you can spend money you haven’t earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors.”

      We’ve fallen into the hands of our creditors and gone bankrupt. End of…

  56. 264
    Lizzie says:

    It’s a tie, it’s only fair to have the “playoffs”

  57. 265
    Koba says:

    The Yes vote yesterday, was the Irish peoples’ first act of servitude since they sold themselves into slavery after they adopted the Euro. There is a clear warning here.

    Fingers crossed for the Ploes and Checks!

  58. 268

    [...] political establishment including the formerly anti-EU Greens backed the Brussels gravy train, Read more Share and [...]

  59. 280
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Or they could just go on which referendum had the greater legitimacy – i.e. the one with the greater turnout.

    I wonder which one that was?

  60. 283
  61. 293

    [...] has just been on RTE calling for a third referendum, on the grounds that it’s now Yes 1 No 1. Guido Fawkes makes a similar point. But – as we all know – over two legs, you measure goal difference in the event of a tie. The Yes [...]

  62. 296
    MASTER OF MY OWN DESTINY says:

    GIVEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAA VOTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  63. 299
    Daveyone says:

    Democracy is not recognised in Europe, but at least there will not be a trade embargo on Guiness!

  64. 303
    The Project says:

    I have to laugh at all these ignorant English twats whining about the lack of democracy in Europe.

    When the fuck was the UK ever a democratic entity?

    Never, is the simple answer.

    That’s why Blair was able to ride roughshod over British instututions and do just as he fuckin well pleased.

    Due process and debate were but nuisances for Blair; so he simply did away with them, firstly in his own party and then in the country. he could do that because we didn’t have a written modern constitution from which the various branches of the state derived their power.

    If you ask me, Blair is precisely the sort of person you want as European president.

    He’s plenty of experience of running undemocratic entities in a charismatic authoritarian way.

    It’s called Facism, children, and Dave will be but a local gauleiter, to Tony’s fuhrer.

    You have to laugh though, at how easily the corporates have wrested power from the people, and centralised it all in their own hands.

    Use it or lose it, you were told.

    Too late now….

    • 306
      Mongrel says:

      Answer to your question: not never, but from 1918 (Universal suffrage) until 1997, although Thatcher started the rot by abusing House processes. We would never have needed a written constitution if MPs had not been such cowards over the last 12 years.

      • 308
        The Project says:

        “We would never have needed a written constitution if MPs had not been such cowards over the last 12 years”.

        That’s why we needed a written constitution. You can’t depend on people to do the right thing.

        You’re wrong about it being just the past 12 years. The legislature was just as supine to the executive during Thatcher’s period and indeed before. The only time the system worked any way well in terms of checks and balances was before political parties crystallised themselves within the legislature, and members were of a more independent mind.

        The great flaw in British constitution which ensured that the executive would always triumph was retaining the monarchy as intrinsic to the constitution, and drawing the executive from the legislature.

      • 311
        Longshanks says:

        They are more than cowards,they are traitors. Anyone allowing an act of treason to be perpetrated and not wilfully trying to stop it is guilty of misprision of treason, or turning a blindeye. At your next mp’s surgery remind him of his responsibilities and that if he does not defend his nation against the demoltion of the liberty of its peoples – when the wheel turns, the treason charge will apply – retrospectively – bastards that they are.

  65. 307
    St George Spits says:

    Bye bye Ireland, hope you enjoyed your few decades of independence.

    Raus raus, schnell, schnell.

    • 317
      Geedo Fucks says:

      To be honest, I’d prefer to have been born in Germany than Britain.

      I mean, what’s so brilliant about Britain?

      The Germans have prosperity and freedoms the British can only dream about.

      There was a time when Britain was great, but not any more. Those days are long gone. The Germans were beating shit out of us in terms of productivity as early as the 1970s and they managed to have prosperity and first class social services and freedoms too. Britain just couldn’t hack it when the empire was gone.

      Best to face up to it.

  66. 309
    Eamonn De Valera says:

    Its nice to hear your voice again guido, now theres a probable yes. I wish you had gone home if you are irish – and stayed there.

    • 314
      Jan says:

      I am sure that a lot of people in 1921 would have been very pleased if Eamonn De Valera had gone back to where he came from…..New York….. and stayed there. He and his anti-treaty lot certainly benefitted from power.Their grandchildren are testament to this as they are still in power in Dublin. Eamon o Cuiv being an example.He is De Valera’s grandson..He is a right pillock.The thing about Ireland is they do love dynasties.Once in power always in power. Nobody else gets a chance.In every county you find them.Fathers and sons,brothers,sisters,you name them they are in power.That’s why the political situation here is so corrupt.There is no democracy in Ireland.

      • 316
        Geedo Fucks says:

        Who are all these other De Valera’s in power then?

        The truth is that there are many more of the Fine Gael sprogs in positions of pomposity and power today, Cosgraves, Collins etc.

        Anyway, you’re obviously some lowlife chav from Coolock or something whose family didn’t do very well.

        I can understand why you’re pissed off with your betters doing so well but, to be fair, we can’t have the uneducated chavs running the show.

        • 326
          Jan says:

          Just about to watch Leinster v Munster and I certainly will NOT be cheering for Leinster.You are hundreds of miles off regarding the Coolock taunt. Wouldn’t live in Dublin if you paid me. The women there all have dyed jet black or yellow hair,huge amounts of face paint and are rather common. You only have to look at the so-called society pages to see what bad taste they all have. As for my family,thank you so much for asking,they’ve all done very well. They’ve done it through hard work,not through patronage or family connections.

  67. 312
    Raptor says:

    People in these comments keep referring to “Ireland”, as if it was a country or state. It is not: Ireland is an island. The state under discussion here is the Irish Republic.

    Northern Ireland has stayed British, and stayed free.

    • 315
      Tom Paine says:

      Northern Ireland is both Irish and British now, though mostly Irish in reality.

      I see that even many protersunts are getting Irish passports now, to avoid having their DNA and everything else recorded on a British passport for anyone to read. It also helps when you’re going through all those countries Britain has pissed off in the past.

      Britain is probably the least free part of Europe. The cameras are but your first clue. The powers of police and the state to monitor almost every aspect of your life are the second. Try protesting and see how far you get. Hardly free.

      It’s probably true to say that it was ignorant cretins like you who allowed us to sleepwalk into the current British tyranny. At least the rest of Europe is still relatively free. If they help us get rid of the ridiculous powers of the state in Britain then perhaps it won’t be so bad after all.

  68. 318

    [...] As Guido says, do they get a decider? [...]

  69. 319

    Vote early, vote often!

  70. 323
    Curious says:

    With Declan Ganley neutered

    What do you mean?????

  71. 329
    Jimmy says:

    You’d think being told what to do by second generation faux Irishmen would have had more of an effect.

  72. 333

    Yes Guido as an Island nation Britain should ignore cooperation and leave Euro-land, go and set your own trade deals; no one who cares pays much attention to Britain these day unless attached to USA; go and write yourselves into further irrelevance at the behest of Willy Hague, who’s been spurned at the polls as the Tory leader before. Does he need a second or third go too?

    Why should anyone listen to him now ad per before as leader. You and him are a piece of shit, do you want your people and our mates to go hungry you pompous useless fcuker.

    Wise up.

  73. 337
    Raddykal Mullah In Phoenix Park says:

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    A EUROMONSTERSTATEYEWNYUN DEVELOPMENT GRANT

    IS A BANQK LOAN

    KNOT A GIFT

    PADDY THORT PADDYS* EURODEBT WAS A GIFT

    AND SEW PADDY HAD TU GIFT PADDySTAN TO THE

    EUROMONSTERSTATEYEWNYUN BANKQERS*BANGQK

    NAO PADDY THYNQKS THAT PADDY IS GOING TO BE A BIG PLAYER IN EWEROPE

    AND KNOT A 10% PLAYER IN PADDySTAN

    PADDY DRYNQKS TOO MUTCH

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    ASTA



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