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Mandelson upsets Irish

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EU Commissioner target of opposition to treaty in Eire

The face of the European Commissioner for Trade now adorns thousands of placards and “Stop Mandelson” posters as Irish opposition to the EU treaty grows ahead of a referendum next month.

Oh, to be Irish on June 12th as they become the only European state to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. It seems odd to be lauding one of Europe’s smallest nations for having the largest heart and the greatest amount of courage in enabling and empowering it’s people, by allowing them to have a say over the Constitution enabling reform treaty that the rest of us have been forced to accept by it’s client governments. It’s unfortunate that Mandelson has become embroiled in an argument about ‘protectionism’ but at least they are willing to have that debate in Ireland.

Mandelson’s bete noir Gordon Brown did a nice body swerve to ensure that we in the UK wouldn’t even get the chance to be involved!

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Written by curly

May 12, 2008 at 9:32 am

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  1. [...] support of the Citizens’ Initiative. Wargle argues that Lisbon does nothing on energy, while British Blogger Curly, the Tap Blog and the Daily Telegraph have posts on Mandelson upsetting us Irish and the implications for [...]

  2. [...] my support of the Citizens’ Initiative. Wargle argues that Lisbon does nothing on energy, while British Blogger Curly, the Tap Blog and the Daily Telegraph have posts on Mandelson upsetting us Irish and the implications for [...]


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