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Sat 06 Jun 2008The people have spoken - and they are not loo-lahs
It is time for politicians to consider an entirely different model of European co-operation, writes Breda O'Brien
THE PEOPLE have spoken, the bastards. That sentiment is probably being echoed by establishment politicians right around the country after the defeat of the Lisbon Treaty. The quote is usually attributed to Dick Tuck, a notorious political prankster who made it his business to persecute Richard Nixon long before Watergate.
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