Irish give Blair the green light

Tony Blair is still cheesily promoting himself as a possible President of Europe. Now that the Irish have done the right thing by the Brussels Regime by saying "YES" to the second referendum, it only leaves the Poles and Czechs to ratify this so-called constitution for Europe.
In a European Union world you're lucky to get a vote on how the monolith should be run. If you do get a vote, you won't be able to say "NO" because that's not an answer you can give. It's, YES,YES,YES all the way home. We won't get a vote on Blair's coronation. The edifice is made up of undemocratic types who genuflect most casually at the altar of democracy.

I'm wondering if Napoleon was the last continental person able to say "NO" and get away with it. The Empress Joséphine was not treated too well by this impirical poseur. In fact he let it be known that "power is my mistress". The European Union wants us to know that power is its mistress. I get the distinct impression that the "citizens of Europe" are just vassals of this overbearing, interfering and intrisically undemocratic organisation. It has been set up rather like a beehive. The drones (us ordinary voters) just get to vote for emasculated national governments. In turn, the leaders of these governments get to buzz around the queen (Tony Blair!) and formulate all manner of ideas and legalistic programmes of which the drones are permitted, at best, to rubber stamp with a "YES" vote.

And we exported democracy to Afghanistan? I think we didn't do a bad job considering how well the last election there went!

Biffo seeks second Irish vote

Not content with the answer NO the first time, the Irish government, aided and abetted by President Sarkozi and the EU machine, are attempting to get a second slice of cherry pie. The trouble with EU democracy is its "our way or the highway" approach. So no voting no to anything. No voting for parties that the EU consider unsavoury, unpalatable or just downright awkward.

Mr. Cowen, the Irish prime minister, whose dullness is in marked contrast to his dodgy predecessors' flair for financial irregularities, is of the opinion that the present economic crisis will persuade voters to say yes in huge numbers. According to the Daily Telegraph a "deal had been struck between France, which holds the rotating EU presidency, Ireland and EU legal services in Brussels under which the Lisbon Treaty could enter into force by January 2010."

A deal has been struck!?! Any consideration given to Irish voters? It appears not. All they are expected to do is go out and buy a rubber stamp to use in the voting booth. Far better that Biffo gets a stamp right across his forehead which will tell all that the answer is "NO - AGAIN!".

EU Chief disdains democracy!

True to form the EU President gives a two-fingered salute to the Irish. Stuff their democratic decision. They got it wrong. They have to resit the exam! It's all like some Dickensian school with rogue teachers.

Jose Manuel Barroso, the EU chief, said, "The No vote in Ireland has not solved the problems which the Lisbon treaty is designed to solve... The European Commission believes that the remaining ratifications should continue to take their course." All of which have been kept far away from the electorates of these countries. Of course, the UK, France, Netherlands would vote NO if they could. So too would Germany. And probably the majority.

The EU is fast becoming a bad joke. Run by people who prefer snouts in money troughs, they are driven by the desire to get their hands on more lucre as the days go by. A joint statement came from the French and German governments who agreed, "We take note of the democratic decision of the Irish citizens with all due respect, even though we regret it." All due respect? How about the respect they show to their own people? Scant in the extreme!

Democracy is not what we think it is. The powerful will be led kicking and screaming to the edge before they give into to proper democracy. John Major described politics as a greasy pole. I think that's changed. It's now a bit like a Rubix cube. The players are all manipulated into position until the right result is achieved.

Well, Mr. Barroso! We have you rumbled, old chum! Your days are surely numbered.

The Irish show how democracy works!

If it were up to the EU high command, voting would only be allowed when the answer was in their favour. A kind of benign Mugabeism. However, the Irish constitution has shown us all that democracy is a good thing. In all this, there is a vast difference between democracy and free speech. The EU let's us sound off about the outfit, but woe betide us getting a vote. The Irish were the only ones in the whole of the European Union to decide on whether they wanted this new-fangled version of the Constitution. According to the tally counters early indications show the No Campaign have won.

The BBC's Oana Lungescu in Brussels says EU leaders are bracing for defeat in the Irish vote but are expected to press on with the treaty, which is meant to streamline decision-making in the now expanded EU. "Expected to press on with the treaty"? Steamrollers come to mind. No amount of voting will ever get through the thick heads of these Brussels-based bureaucrats that the European people don't trust their leaders in the direction that they are taking us. Jose Manuel Barroso, the EU President, just carries on regardless. Some democrat! Some European!

So now the Irish say NO. The Dutch and French said NO the last time they voted, although this time they were denied the right. I would hazard a guess that almost every country would vote NO. But Barroso, being the steamrolling type, doesn't trust the people. The Americans have the motto "In God we Trust". The EU has turned this into something like "In the People we do NOT Trust!".

They've been shown up for the shoddy shower that they are. Oh, and Mr. Barroso - perhaps now is the time to get your accounts in order, otherwise you'll never get us to believe you're running the EU properly!

Irish democracy hijacked by EU and its Irish stooges!

If you ever wondered how undemocratic the EU can be, then just reflect on how they simply HATE referendums. They much prefer the dodgy types like Berlusconi, a man who can win elections even if half the state prosecutors want him in jail!

So the EU mandarins have turned their gaze towards Ireland, where a referendum is to take place on the Constitutional Treaty that is supposed to be something else! They have helped to try to fix the outcome by "suggesting" it would be a good idea if Bertie Ahern went before the poll took place. Daniel Hannan poses this on his Telegraph blog.

Why did Bertie Ahern stand down as Ireland’s Prime Minister? Alright, because he is facing corruption allegations, but why did he resign now? The Guardian’s Henry McDonald, who knows a thing or two about Irish politics, is in no doubt. The Taoiseach stood down to ensure a “Yes” vote in the only national referendum on the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty that the EU couldn’t cancel.

McDonald quotes a senior Irish government source saying: “Fianna Fáil didn’t want the referendum on the European treaty to be diverted into an electoral judgment on Bertie Ahern. His going now gives Brian Cowen a chance to sell the yes campaign on its merits for Ireland free from any diversions such as Ahern’s personal finances.”

Makes sense to me. Had Bertie stuck around, the plebiscite might have become a referendum on what the Irish call “gombeenism” (very roughly, “sleaze”). And the last thing Eurocrats want, what with their accounts not having been audited for 13 years, is a vote about corruption. So now, instead of the referendum being a chance to vote “No” to a discredited leader, it’ll be held in the middle of the honeymoon of his successor – almost certainly the Euro-fanatical Brian Cowen (known to his detractors as “Biffo” Cowen: Big Ignorant F***er From Offaly”).

Well, I hope the voters in Ireland see through this Euro-Gombeenism (great new hyphenated word for me!) and vote NO without any hesitation. They won't be voting against Europe, or trade, or good international relations, but they will be denying the troughfeeders in Brussels the satisfaction they are so desperately wanting.

We need to stand up for democracy. This new guy, Biffo Cowen......well! If he's such a big so-and-so from Offally, then the NO vote should be massive.

No To Lisbon Campaign