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Post Lisbon Referendum – An analysis of the profile and reasons behind why people voted NO.
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Friday July 11, 2008 17:01 by Libertarian
Introduction An opinion poll carried out by the European commission on the 13th – 14th June was released during the week. The Eurobarometer randomly surveyed 2,000 people to understand 5 main issues: |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3I don't think a strong cultural and national identity amongst Irish working people is a cause for "concern".
Some of us even speak Irish too.
'National identity' and 'nationalism' are not the same thing. This is a very superficial 'analysis' imho.
Well well well, it appears that even though a higher percentage of people voted against Lisbon being adopted than voted for Barack Obama as president of the Unified States, and much greater than voted for Cowen, Harney and Lenihan, they are not allowed to leave it at that, and now we must vote again, and it seems, again, until the other side get the result the want.
While we may be downhearted about this, let's remember clearly, we did win the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in 2008. It was a tough fight, but we won fairly and legally.
The poor losers of the other side demanding a re-match is as a clear a judgment on them and their bankruptcy as you could ever want.
But they should be careful- those who close democratic avenues for change should be prepared to accept the consequences of people losing faith in voting and finding other ways to make their voices heard.