Watching the BBC broadcast of Barroso’s press conference you realised how the EU just can not compute any result that does not go its way. Barroso said that he respected the Irish decision but then kept on insisting that the 27 EU members would have to find a way to ratify the treaty anyway. It really is quite comic.
One wonders how many times the ideas embedded in the Lisbon Treaty will have to be rejected by the voters before the European elite finally gives up on trying to impose them on us. By my count, these ideas have already gone down to defeat three times—the referendums in France, Holland and Ireland.
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