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Thu 02 Feb 2008EU referendums 'pointless and damaging'
Dick Roche has gone on the offensive to boost support for the Lisbon Treaty. But the prospect of the referendum fills Dennis Kennedywith dread
When is some politician, or some party, going to have the nous to come out and admit that the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, far from being a higher form of democracy, is nothing but a pain in the neck, a costly distraction, and a field day for old warhorses, cranks and flat-earthers?
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