RedC poll for Sunday Business Post: 73% want a referendum on the Fiscal Treaty.

[edifice.]

Is it odd with the high margin wanting a referendum and a majority shown to be in favour of Yes: wouldn't Yes voters prefer the legislative route as a more assured means of securing ratification?

[ivnryn]

Is it odd with the high margin wanting a referendum and a majority shown to be in favour of Yes: wouldn't Yes voters prefer the legislative route as a more assured means of securing ratification?

Maybe they are willing to agree to this one, reluctantly, but want to be asked in the future? Not everyone has a 6 months time horizon.

[Toman13]

Is it odd with the high margin wanting a referendum and a majority shown to be in favour of Yes: wouldn't Yes voters prefer the legislative route as a more assured means of securing ratification?

It's a very slim majority, there's still a good amount of undecided voters and the NO side usually becomes stronger as referendum campaigns go on.

[Passer-by]

Is it odd with the high margin wanting a referendum and a majority shown to be in favour of Yes: wouldn't Yes voters prefer the legislative route as a more assured means of securing ratification?

Why? Worst case for the government is exercise our sovereign right to vote No, the other member states say fair enough and exercise their sovereign rights not to loan us any more money, the government then announces that as there is no money in the kitty to pay for public services, specified hospitals and schools will have to close and when the public screams blue murder blames it all on our domestic Eurosceptics for leading people up the garden path.

[Passer-by]

If as Mario Dragi says the Treaty means a derogation of Sovereignty

- then any challenge to the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of any Bill passed to facilitate the implementation of the prospective Fiscal Treaty

- is likely to be accepted as needing a Referendum

IMO

Since when is Mario Draghi an expert on Irish constitutional law?