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Thread: Cost of voting on Lisbon Treaty set to top €50m

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    Quote Originally Posted by evercloserunion View Post
    Perhaps we should scrap GEs as well.
    Or just ignore the results and re-run them until people vote "correctly"

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    I wonder what happens if Ireland votes NO again?

    Another vote?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bobo View Post
    Or just ignore the results and re-run them until people vote "correctly"
    Isn't that what democracy's all about. Get with the program!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 20000miles View Post
    Isn't that what democracy's all about. Get with the program!
    Do the right wing liberals oppose the Lisbon Treaty?

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    You'll have to ask them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by petervalhala View Post
    The Czech government is in crisis, however their ratification will continue.

    The treaty is very much alive and its in our national interest to have it passed here, €50m is a drop in the ocean vs the benefits to Ireland of having it ratified.
    What are the benefits to Ireland?

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    A scandalous waste of public-money on some vanity-project that will bring Ireland nothing for Ireland but marginalisation - with the other small countries - in the Eurocrat power-structure, as well as something very close to colonial-status. And for what? So Fianna Failures can hop aboard the Euro gravy-train and bend the knee to the unelected oligarchs of Brussels. It's 1800 all over again I tell you. What is it about our history....1169...1800....2008. What did we ever do to deserve such venality from some of our political-leaders?

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    Quote Originally Posted by petervalhala View Post
    Ireland, the only native English speaking country in the Euro zone
    Ireland isn't a "native English-speaking country".
    "I hereby declare that the Continuity Executive and the Continuity Army Council are the lawful Executive and Army Council respectively of the Irish Republican Army, and that the governmental authority, delegated in the Proclamation of 1938, now resides in the Continuity Army Council, and its lawful successors."

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    Quote Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach View Post
    A scandalous waste of public-money on some vanity-project that will bring Ireland nothing for Ireland but marginalisation - with the other small countries - in the Eurocrat power-structure, as well as something very close to colonial-status. And for what? So Fianna Failures can hop aboard the Euro gravy-train and bend the knee to the unelected oligarchs of Brussels. It's 1800 all over again I tell you. What is it about our history....1169...1800....2008. What did we ever do to deserve such venality from some of our political-leaders?
    I blame our inability to draw meaningful historical comparisons.
    Never let the best be the enemy of the good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by petervalhala View Post
    The Czech government is in crisis, however their ratification will continue.
    Doubt it... not any time soon anyway, only takes one NO to kill it, they'll get 2:
    No from the Czech's and No from Ireland.. Lisbon Treaty is dead.

    So, Back to drawing board for something that resembles a democracy..

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