Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Maynooth Town Portal in Lisbon Treaty

On behalf of the activists of the People’s Movement‘s I wish to applaud 10,000 citizens of Kildare North who voted No to Lisbon 2.

They refused to bow to the combined might of the Brussels bureaucracy, the supine Irish political establishment, the brash business bosses and the media (with honourable exceptions) who spared no expense and showed no respect for the democratic process in reversing the decision of the electorate in June 08.

Overall, the result cannot reasonably be described as determining the will of the people; rather it represents the fear of the people.

Commentators and historians will, in time, collect and analyse all of black arts of politics and constitutional illegalities employed by the Yes side. No doubt their finding will include: the intervention of the European Commission; part funding of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour by their sister parties in the European Parliament; the Irish Government’s unlawful use of public funds; the blatant bias of the Referendum Commission and its reduction to a thinly-veiled arm of Government propaganda; a no-limits spend by Intel, Ryanair and other companies, in possible breach of Irish company and tax law.

We salute the magnificent 10,000 of Kildare North

Michael Quinn

Sec.

North Kildare branch