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Tue 08 Aug 2009Interesting reasons for voting Yes to a dull treaty
LISBON IS a byword for dull, dull, dull in the same way as any mention of Maastricht in secondary school could have been used as a mantra to knock out chronically insomniac geography students. EU treaty debates are tedious affairs at the best of times, let alone when we have to go through the rigmarole of doing it all over again at the same time as we watch the bottom fall out of the world, writes NICK McGINLEY
When you are about halfway through the treaty and tiny droplets of blood are trickling from your eyes onto the page, you start noticing some interesting issues that no one’s arguing about. I believe there are 100 reasons to vote for Lisbon. Here are just a few.
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