IRISH CITIZENS VOTE DOWN EU TREATY

Some good news to report. Of course, the MSM doesn't think this is good news, but it is.

From the Times Online:


The future of the European Union was tonight clouded in uncertainty after Ireland voted No to the Lisbon Treaty.

Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President, and a raft of foreign ministers expressed dismay that Ireland - the only member state to hold a referendum on the matter - chose to reject it decisively by 53.4 per cent to 46.6 per cent.

Amid wild cheers from No campaigners, the results were revealed at 5pm with 862,415 votes against and 752,451 in favour, giving a majority of 109,964 against.

Despite the result, EU leaders were tonight vowing to press ahead with ratifying the treaty.

However, the Lisbon Treaty - the reworked successor to the formal constitutional pact dumped by voters in France and the Netherlands in 2005 - officially needs the approval of all 27 EU member states, meaning the way forward for the union is now uncertain.

Mr Barroso said he believed that other states should press ahead with the ratification process. "The no vote in Ireland has not solved the problems which the Lisbon Treaty is designed to solve," he said.


Mr. Baroso, the voters of three nations have now made it clear they don't want your solution. Your continued efforts to push it despite having been rejected by the vote of the people, indicates you have no respect for the Democratic process.

But, you EU bureaucraps are not going to listen, are you?


From CNN, via Atlas Shrugs:

Politicians from the government and major opposition parties -- all of whom campaigned for the treaty's ratification -- appeared uniformly grim-faced Friday as counting progressed in 43 constituencies nationwide.

"I do not see how we're going to claw back our position based on the numbers I'm seeing. It's going pretty much all the way of the `no' camp," said Pat Rabbitte, former leader of the opposition Labour Party.