“We Could Loose Our Commissioner…”

Now that the result although not yet quite in is common knowledge.  the Nos have it, the silly reactions of the YES supporters are building up.  The embarr assed Yes men supporters are giving it all of the reasons as to why they lost.

Reasons such as “The opposition were saying that we would loose our commissioner for five years out every fifteen…  that abortion would come in through the back door…  that some nonsense about cocaine.  That we would not have any respect in europe after not accepting the Treaty. 

Simply the situation is that our politicians do not know how to prepare to speak regarding important issues or how to properly convey the implications of a new internetional agreement.

Mary Harney, during the build up to the Lisbon Treaty referendum, would only say ‘Euope has been good for us… blah blah blah….’.

Well those reasons in themselves were not a reasons to vote in any particular way in the Lisbon Treaty referendum. 

The situation now is that we have been traveling along the Europe road and we have come to a junction and we must decide which direction we should go for a better future.

In effect on June 12th 2008 we had to decide on “YES” to accept the treaty or “YES ”  to retain the status quo…  And the Irish people did decide to retain the status quo.  And that is the way the voting paper should be, yes for one situation or yes for another situation.  Not ”YES” or “NO”.  Pyschologically voting NO can seem negative in one way and therefore the YES side had an unfair pyschological advantage.  In fact voting NO may actually be the most positive action a voter could take. 

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