Official Thumped position on Lisbon (1 Viewer)

[Cormcolash]

It'd be great if a yes vote led to Ireland being less full of fucking racists, you never know!

 

[aoboa]

'brian cowens first big achievement'
'the government got people to change their minds and convinced them to vote yes'

rte


great day for ff

Talk about spin! The vast majority of people changed their minds because they were 'worried about the economy'.

 

[Milker]

Talk about spin! The vast majority of people changed their minds because they were 'worried about the economy'.

well ganley also congratulated cowen on a masterful campaign by a masterful politician....made the oppostion parties look like ff puppets and proves that ff are irelands natural party...think he means we deserve them

 

[broken arm]

'brian cowens first big achievement'
'the government got people to change their minds and convinced them to vote yes'

rte


great day for ff

FF can in no way take any credit for this - they were smart in this campaign for mostly shutting up and staying off screen.

what Ireland needs to do now is boot out FF and start rebuilding the country.

although he doesn't have much local mandate, people like Joe Higgins should be in a stronger position now more than ever - he has had more coverage/limelight than in a long time and only once or twice had his integrity challenged - by misleading people.

 

[broken arm]

RTE_Lisbon #[URL="http://twitter.com/RTE_Lisbon"][/URL] Donegal North East has rejected the Lisbon Treaty. 51.46% (15,005) voted No and 48.54% (14,156) voted Yes

 

[Los Davos]

This is nothing to do with government.

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

 

[therealjohnny]

result?What result?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1003/breaking27.htm

 

[Milker]

broken arm -FF can in no way take any credit for this - they were smart in this campaign for mostly shutting up and staying off screen.

i agree.

Was wondering if this will give FF a sense of security that will make them less concessionary w the Greens demands in the Prog National Govt talks...thereby increasing the likelihood of the Green membership rejecting the deal initiating a withdrawal.

 

[broken arm]

the swings seem pretty large - the Irish time map thingy

http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/lisbon2009/

 

[therealjohnny]

RTE_Lisbon # Donegal North East has rejected the Lisbon Treaty. 51.46% (15,005) voted No and 48.54% (14,156) voted Yes

Coincidence?

http://www.independent.ie/national-...uman-form-and-wept-say-witnesses-1902391.html

 

[Serpico]

Surprised it's such a trouncing. Looks like the biggest victory/defeat margin of any referendum held in this country before. I'm sure the reasons for this are varied and complex but from personal experience the people I spoke to who were voting no hadn't a fucking clue what the thing was about whereas the yes-ers seemed to at least base their vote on educated guesses. Could the difference between this time and the last time be as much to do with people finding out what it was all about as shitting themselves about the economy?

 

[CitySickness]

Just saw Eoin Ryan shiteing on about something on RTE's coverage, my first thought was "Jesus, Ian Dempsey's really let himself go."

 

[Milker]

they're still saying the treaty had to be passed to keep our influence i europe...amazing principal... i can see how that makes sense but they could've given us a blank document to begin w to fill in when its passed.

heard a woman say she voted no to get ff out so cancer treatment cutbacks could be reversed....cancer more important than europe.

 

[Space]

Glad to see Donegal having a majority no after the landslide ff victory in the local elections.

 

[Froog]

ya, whats the story with donegal?

anyone catch ganley's "gracious" speech about cowen? hope we've seen the last of that snake. can't wait till the country gets back to focusing on how shit the goverment is.

 

[pete]

can't wait till the country gets back to focusing on how shit the goverment is.

I can't wait for all the jobs the eu is sending us.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

so now we're relying on that mad czech lad to delay it long enough for the conservatives to get into power in england and put it to a referendum?never thought id want to see the tories in government again.

 

[nooleen]

ah well it's nice for brian cowen anyway, poor fella. he needed a break.

i'd say he'll be hittin' the sups tonight!
(no change there then)

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

=

"brian cowen is a drunken bastard and he always will be"

 

[Red_Dog]

So when do we get to kick out FF?