
Democracy is only worth the fig if it produces the right answer. Clearly
Irish voters have boo-boobed big time. Some of those eurocrats in Brussels and Strasbourg have barely been able to lie on their expenses claims so angry they are.
Typical of the puffed up bullfrog arrogance of the eurocracy is one Monsieur Valery Marie René Giscard d'Estaing, "
The Irish have the right to say 'no,'" but "a country that represents 0.7% of the European population...cannot decide for the others."
I think Valery actually prefers a much smaller electorate; just the eurocrats, let them decide what's best for you and leave it at that.
As the article says in the Irish Independent, "The Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by European politicians in 19 countries, who number perhaps 5,000, as against the 862,000 Irish voters who shot it down."
Valery's statement that "public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them directly," had a great deal in helping the No camp. Though he does say that it is a mistranslation. But, however badly it was translated, I think we get your meaning Valery.