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Is democracy dead in the EU?

The Irish government has caved in to pressure from the EU and will be holding a second referendum on the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty, having decisively rejected it the first time around.

Brian Cowen, the embattled Irish Prime Minister may have overplayed his hand in this gigantic gamble as he bends the knee to those federalists in Europe who already drawing up plans to appoint the first EU President. They are no longer interested in having just a wide trading market that benefits it’s members but are actively pursuing the creation of a European super state with it’s own titular head that will take precedence over our own sovereign, and a foreign service that will dispense with the need for people like South Shields MP and Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

This is  pressure and bullying on a scale not seen before in peacetime Europe as the only country which has so far kept it’s promise to have a referendum on the treaty is treated like a pariah simply because her people did not vote in favour. They are determined that democracy for the little people at the bottom of the pile must die.

Declan Ganley who led the campaign for the NO vote in Ireland’s first referendum has decided that he will stand candidates for his Libertas group in every member state in next year’s EU elections. Mr Ganley said:

“The Irish Government and the powerful elite in Brussels are showing utter contempt for the democratic decision of the Irish people in rejecting the Lisbon treaty. They tried this with the French, they tried with the Dutch, they are trying with the Irish. It is time to put a stop to this bullying.”

“The European elections are too good and unique an opportunity to be a playground for a usual Tories versus the government playground. We should not waste them on that,” he said.

“This is the referendum that Gordon Brown refused to give the British people. We are delivering a mechanism for the British people to have that referendum.”

It seems to me that the EU elite want to keep asking some folks to vote, vote, and vote again until you get a result that we agree with. Because of the underhand way in which EU officials are manipulating the debate and the processes of finding an EU President, it is no surprise that many are moving towards the “better off out” argument. Would our trade with Europe really suffer? Could they manage without trading with us?

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