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• The finest pamphlet of the campaign so far!

  June 7, 2008 @ 5:38 pm | by Conor Pope

  I came across – and by came across, I mean someone submitted it as a comment under my last post – A Spoofer’s Guide to How to not vote no by Jason O’Mahony. It is unashamedly pro-Treaty and funny, a combination I haven’t come across before in this campaign.

  Here’s one excerpt I liked

  Who is against the Treaty. A lovely bunch of people, and they’ve been right about so much before!

  Gerry Adams
  Sinn Fein used to be against the EU, but have now changed to wanting to reform it, so that every decision is made by unanimity, that is, never. Am I the only person who finds it ironic that they pretty much want to model the EU on the Commonwealth? Sinn Fein also want (Pay attention, this is tricky) to bring Northern Ireland into the Euro, and once in, bring the whole island out of the Euro together. Huh? Apparently it is something to do with 19th century concepts of national identity. Maybe they’ll give us all an acre of land, a bucket and a donkey each too. Sinn Fein say the EU is too pro-business, too capitalist, and does not give enough rights to EU workers, whilst at the same time condemning the EU’s interference in the rights of Irish workers. Finally, and this is my favourite, Sinn Fein believe that the EU is too militaristic and are concerned about the EU using weapons to achieve its political ends. I’ll let that sentence just sit quietly there, as I leaf through the November 2007edition of Black Pots and Kettles Monthly.

  Margaret Thatcher & The Tories
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• Countdown to cataclysm

  June 6, 2008 @ 2:49 pm | by Conor Pope

  Interesting poll in The Irish Times this morning which makes it clear the Yes side is in serious trouble. It seems to me that the Government has made a complete pigs ear of the campaign by spectacularly failing to explain in simple terms why people should back the treaty. And they have not done their cause much good with the response to the poll which has verged on the hysterical. The comments from ministers today are filled with dark threats about the cataclysmic consequences if we reject the treaty. Mind you the No side are no strangers to the dark, and frankly ridiculous, threat themselves. And who ever came up with the notion that “if in doubt vote no” needs to go stand in the corner and think about what they’ve done. If in doubt, don’t vote, I’d say.